Artist
See also: Art
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business. John Berryman
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula H.L. Mencken
Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities? Dorothy Norman
That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen Edward G. Craig
Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man H.L. Mencken
Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age Percy Bysshe Shelley
Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconnected or chaotic Anthony Storr
If you're an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart Bruce Springsteen
An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye Michaelangelo
The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be. H.L. Mencken
The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness Garry Wills
An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument Henry Miller
A work of art is the result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want. Indeed, the moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull or an amusing craftsman, an honest or a dishonest tradesman. Oscar Wilde
The artist's first responsibility is to educate him or herself. Then try to pass along some information or direction to their audience. Little Steven (from Michael Albert's "Rockin' Radical")
What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos. Henry Miller
The artist's struggle to transcend his pain can become the seed for many others' hope, transforming a personal journey into a vision for us all. Diane Cole
Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself Igor Stravinsky
The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist Vincent Van Gogh
Great artists have no country Alfred de Musset
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle. Carl G. Jung