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Every true artist is at war with the world.
Sep 30, 2025
A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.
As with any true artist, change is the only constant.
A true artist is an ugly man.
The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.
Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.
A true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it.
The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.
A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.
True artists scorn nothing.
Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved.
And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.
They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that.
The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.
The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay.
The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition [reconnaissance] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven by interior necessities.
In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.
All true artists in the world from all countries and all genres are influenced by Michael Jackson. There were music videos before Michael Jackson, and there were music videos after Michael Jackson. He brought such a huge change in the marketing and positioning of the music video.
I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.
With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is decisive.
A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support
I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.
There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone. If you are a true artist, you will have a very finely tuned moral mechanism.
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
Hypnotically haunting sounds from a true artist that dares to dream.
If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must motivate any true artist, makes him aware that our nation falls short of its highest potential. I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist.
Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.
Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.
I learned how difficult it is to be an artist. There are always compromises. The record company wants you to do this, your fans want you to do this, your family, you can't concentrate on your work. It's a hard thing to be an artist and not give up. That's why I have so much respect for people like Dylan and Neil Young and Tom Waits, because they keep at it. I have a new respect for a true artist.
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.
How would you define [Bob] Dylan? You can't. That's a true artist. How about Ray Charles? Can you classify Ray Charles? No, you can't. He's just great, period.
The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.
Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.
Being unique seems more desirable than ever. People are exhausted by clichés, by platitudes, by mass-produced realities, by what's been done and done and done. The role of a true artist is to present their own unique vision, and so it has always made sense to me that works of art should be radical.
To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal body or total mastery of all aspects of the art form, but on the stage they possessed magnetism-true artistry, by which I mean a charismatic quality. You can work with a coach to try and develop it, but a true artist has the ability to express his inner feelings naturally.
True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Michael Jackson was extraordinary. When we worked together on 'Bad,' I was in awe of his absolute mastery of movement on the one hand, and of the music on the other. Every step he took was absolutely precise and fluid at the same time. It was like watching quicksilver in motion. He was wonderful to work with, an absolute professional at all times, and it really goes without saying... a true artist. It will be a while before I can get used to the idea that he's no longer with us.
Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice of that sort. If you do, you will very likely starve trying to live on your writing income. Besides, the only writers who survive the ages are those who understand the need for action in a novel.
A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.