Artist Quotes

In a painting, you can’t make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist’s stroke.

Compared to a lot of artists, I’m usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it’s the one thing, unfortunately, you can’t help being.

If you deeply appreciate and love what creative people do and how they think, which is usually in unpredictable and irrational ways, then you can start to understand them. And finally, you can see inside their minds and DNA.

Some of you are doomed to be artists.

I guess with the generation we live in, we just want to be entertained at the end of the day. A lot of artists make themselves accessible, so they feel like every artist should be like that. Some artists shouldn’t be so accessible, to me.

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.

Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

I’ve always wanted to make that change from a rapper into an artist.