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A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.

Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?

A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life than a creative writer, painter or musician. To be a rabbit is better still.

Americans ... do not naturally apply the term "bourgeois" to themselves, or to anyone else for that matter. They do like to call themselves middle class, but that does not carry with it any determinate spiritual content. ... The term "middle class" does not have any of the many opposites that bourgeois has, such as aristocrat, saint, hero, or artist - all good.

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

Among artists without talent Marxism will always be popular, since it enables them to blame society for the fact that nobody wants to hear what they have to say.

Among the Indians, as among other nations, some people are born artists, but most are not. I am a born artist. I have as much interest in my people as any anthropologist, and I have studied our culture and lore. My aim is to reassemble the pieces of a once proud culture, and to show the dignity and bravery of my people.

Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most others will turn to faith for understanding; and the rest will become lost souls.

A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.

A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.'

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

A muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist's desires, anxieties, dreams and needs.

Amy Sedaris [in the Ghost Team] plays a Miss Cleo-esque character - Miss Cleo just died, so that's kind of timely - but she plays a Miss Cleo-esque TV psychic who's also kind of a bullshit artist. One of the most triumphant character turns in the movie is when she realizes that even though she's a bullshit artist, she does have something to offer. She helps save the day at the end of the movie.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.

An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank.

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness, a purposive cosmos from an apparently indifferent chaos.

An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity.

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

An artist is an explorer.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

An artist doesn't necesetharily have to get acclaim from the outside. Maybe it is much better if he can get validation from within.

An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.

An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.

An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and the viewer, so it's close to what a musical composer does, or a poet or a dancer. It is coming out of one's inner being.

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

An artist must be a reactionary

An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.