I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.
Lou Reed

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
Lou Reed

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
Lou Reed

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
Harry Callahan

The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I'll invite all my friends and just stay at home.
Lil' Kim

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
David Mamet

That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.
Amy Tan

To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before.
Chuck Klosterman

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
Arnold Bennett

Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Henry Ellis

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
Thom Yorke

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Novalis

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Novalis

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
Auguste Rodin

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Auguste Rodin

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
Auguste Rodin

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Auguste Rodin

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
Auguste Rodin

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul Bellow

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
David Byrne