I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

To fornicate is to aspire to enter into another; the artist never emerges from himself.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Where Norman Rockwell is the Artist for the man on the street, O'Henry is his author.

This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.

I am the wood frame, the bundle of ox hair, and the creative spark... my value unhangable.

Like many people who dress in black, the lump of coal was interested in becoming an artist.

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.

If you feel that strongly about something, you have an obligation to try and change my mind.

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.