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“The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface”
― Lisa Renee Jones, If I Were You

“When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.”
― Robert Henri

“The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.”
― Marina Abramović

“An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one. That is the realm of the artist.”
― Federico Fellini

“I am the eye that beholds... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky... For I am the one they call artist, and you call Love.”
― Solange nicole

“The soul of an artist cannot be muted indefinitely. It must either be expressed or it will consume the host.”
― Gerard de Marigny, Rise to the Call

“It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the expression in concrete form of their notions of reality. Like him, they deal with the verities of time and space, life and death, and the heights of exaltation as well as the depths of despair. The preoccupation with these eternal problems creates a common ground which transcends the disparity in the means used to achieve them.”
― Mark Rothko, The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art

“Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.”
― Jan Pinkava Ratatouille

“She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“â€�"But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all.... You can be quiet and it contains the whole thing."

Happy birthday to Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)!”
― Louise Nevelson. Sky Cathedral. 1958.

“At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.”
― M.C. Escher

“The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.”
― Robert Olen Butler

“I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.”
― Richard Linklater

“Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.”
― Alice Neel

“Art is ment to travel from your heart to your head and out through your fingers...”
― Kelly Bingham, Shark Girl

“No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie.”
― George Eliot, Silas Marner

“[Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?]

Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so much about the impossible as he is about freaks and deformities, but those are interesting to me too.”
― Audrey Niffenegger

“Art is a passion or it is nothing”
― Robert Fry

“If somebody's getting depressed in life, I would say, "Look at me'. I've got here believing in me. Sometimes, things do not go as you expected and you could feel as if you were ruining everything. But Everything can be only the path to get to the success of your dream. You can not fail until you give up. As long as you keep going, you are on the path for your success.”
― Hiroko Sakai

“Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original. First rule of restoration: follow the intention of the artist. Never try to improve on him.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Slow Man

“I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my craft.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.”
― Truman Capote

“A good artist should laugh often!”
― François Place, The Old Man Mad about Drawing: A Tale of Hokusai

“When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account...”
― Hiroko Sakai

“There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things? They are not facts, they do not improve our business skills, our techniques in manufacturing goods, the management of a home. That is what most of you will be doing anyway. We read these because they teach us about people, we can see ourselves in them, in their problems. And by seeing ourselves in them, we clarify ourselves, we explain ourselves to ourselves, so we can live with ourselvesâ€�”
― F. Sionil José

“When a mad man found some certain way to express his insanity in original way, he would get promoted to be called an Artist.... Wait, are you talking about me?”
― Hiroko Sakai

“A true artist removes his heart willingly, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back—bruised and aching—as he continues to strive for excellence due to the all-consuming obsession and love for his art.”
― H G Mewis

“ONLY' having the Gift, people appreciate this madness as Art. Everybody wants to have Art in their lives, but no body wants to have what the Art came out from in their lives...”
― Hiroko Sakai