Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
David Herbert Lawrence

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
Jeanette Winterson

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
Andre Malraux

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
George Edward Moore

Every man is an artist.
Joseph Beuys

I didn't want to be an artist.
Carole King

I just want to be written about as a normal artist.
Robert Mapplethorpe

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
Nat King Cole

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.
Brandon Boyd

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
Wassily Kandinsky

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.
Antonio Banderas

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
Rebecca West

I am an artist and a political being as well.
Robin Morgan

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
Alberto Giacometti

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Lawrence Durrell

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.
Keith Haring

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.
Don Ellis

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
Cyril Connolly

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
Cyril Connolly

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
Cyril Connolly