Artist Quotes

"The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart" "The world was not created once and for all time, but as often as an original artist has been born" "The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth." "In itself a wall on which an artist works so that it disappears is a marvelous creation" "It’s very important that the film reveals something to you about the artist that makes it." "I want to be known for the songs I write handlers" "I always sensed in Jimmy Buffett a passion and feeling for the music that ran deeper than just wanting to be a pop star" "The poet is an artist for whom singing is not simply enough only accompanied by tears is his song complete" "An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose" "Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people the beauty within themselves" "The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed" "Thank you for the tragedy I need it for my art" "Being an artist doesn’t start because you’re twenty-one, and it doesn’t stop because you’re fifty-one. You are who you are until the day you die." "An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." "No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger." "The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important." "I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize." "I’m just trying to make music everybody can get something from." "I will die for the art for what I believe in" "You can teach someone to make music, but you can't teach them to be an artist."