Artist Life Quotes

“I am an artist, my hair is rarely tamed & sometimes I sleep till noon,
My house is messy and I speak to the moon.
I care less about the materials that I share with my world and more about the passion inside myself.
Im an artist, what more can you expect?
i am full of soul, love and all the rest.”
― Nikki Rowe

“I have a fear of living a surface kind of life;
barely existing, barely touching or tasting anything. That's why you'll always see me giving my all or walking away ~ I'm too full of depth to dance in the middle of anything.”
― Nikki Rowe

“We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.”
― Anna Deavere Smith, Letters to a Young Artist

“What you call your lies are fiction and myths. The art of creating a disguise can be as beautiful as the creation of a painting… I created a woman for my artist life, bold, gay, courageous, generous, fearless; and another to please my father, a clear-sighted woman with a love of beauty, harmony, and self-discipline, critical and selective; and still another who lives in chaos, embraces the weak and the stumbling and the confused.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

“Would Turner have slept through such terrific drama? Absolutely not! Anyone in my business who slept through that would be a fool. I don't keep office hours.”
― Martin Gayford, A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney

“Put on the show you want to see.”
― Lorcan Walshe

“...every path toward self-discovery is a valid one.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“People learn how to treat us based on how they see us treating ourselves. If I don't put value on my work or my time, neither will the person I'm helping. Boundaries are a function of self respect and self love.”
― Brené Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.

“Paint more, worry less.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“Do not descend amongst professors or capitalists.”
― Walt Whitman

“She gave life a meaning.
She was art, dressed like a painters pallet, bright and unaware of how goddam beautiful she could be turned into; with the right touch, her smile was the brush and her story was the canvas.”
― Nikki Rowe

“I don't paint what people expect,
I paint what my heart yearns to express.”
― Nikki Rowe

“The great Raphael Perez he give life a meaning ! ... He is master, his smile is brush and his story is canvas ...”
― Imran Shaikh

“The lyrical form is in fact the simplest verbal vesture of an instant of emotion, a rhythmical cry... The simplest epical form is seen emerging out of lyrical literature when the artist prolongs and broods upon himself as the centre of an epical went and this form progresses till the centre of emotional gravity is equidistant from the artist himself and from others. The narrative is no longer purely personal. The personality of the artist passes into the narration itself, flowing round and round the persons and the action like a vital sea... The dramatic form is reached when the vitality which has flowed and eddied round each person fills every person with such vital force that he or she assumes a proper and intangible esthetic life. The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalities itself, so to speak. The esthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and projected from the human imagination. The mystery of esthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man

“Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for your art.”
― Robin Black

“Nobody catches you if you fall.”
― Siren Waroe

“There are paintings that take on a life of their own, and do not allow you to finish them.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“An empty canvas is the safest addiction in the world, art is the only drug that won't kill you, instead it'll save your life.”
― Nikki rowe

“Art is a basic human right.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“Is it the purpose of the writer or artist to conform to prevailing norms or government dictates? No. It is to challenge, to present alternatives, to raise a mirror with many facets, so that society can question dogma and follow the path of their choosing, without fetters.”
― T.C. Weber, Sleep State Interrupt (1)

“The slowness, the fatigue, the late hours, the resistance, the stubborn optimism, the rebellion, the trip thru hell, and yet seeing beauty around. my whole life feels like I’ve just discovered something life-changing decades after it changed everyone else’s. And that ain’t bad.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“i can create my imagination coz i am because Artist.!”
― Manish Suthar

“Like so many other San Franciscans whose paycheck isn't tied to an app or a private bus ride to the Peninsula, you wait to see what tomorrow brings and try to stay steadfast.”
― Oscar Villalon

“Ett annat missgrepp är att konstnärligt begåvade personer tror att de bara kan förverkliga sig själva och bli lyckliga om de har tillräckligt med pengar för att inte behöva tänka på oväsentligheter. Men den bekymmerslösa tillvaron ger dem ett övermått av tid att tänka på hur olyckliga människan är till sin natur och för att glömma sin stora olycka kastar de sig in i nöjeslivets hektiska virvlar och sen blir de snart verkligt olyckliga.”
― Henrik Tikkanen

“Art it’s the only path I can go down as it is all I can exist doing.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“True love lasts like aging rocks on sea shores,
scarce its mighty fierce waves can touch its core to separate,since lightning bolts of thunder comes its way and remembers,those loved are.”
― Nithin Purple, Venus and Crepuscule

“We all are nothing but Intellectual prostitutes”
― Subhankar Sengupta

“The walls are bare; look out of the window and you have a finer sight than any painter has ever placed on a piece of canvas.”
― Iain Pears, The Portrait

“Art is the only way to express our feelings beautifully”
― Raigon Stanley

“I just wanted you to know... there will be a piece of you in me always, and I am eternally grateful for that. Since through you, I am." – Art.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz