Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.
John Frusciante

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
Lewis Mumford

What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
Lady Gaga

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
Lady Gaga

A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
Lady Gaga

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
Aldous Huxley

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
Thomas Aquinas

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
Langston Hughes

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. Wells

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
Samuel Beckett

Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Henry Ellis

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
Michelangelo

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Michelangelo

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Michelangelo

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkner