#artists

Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#dudes #industry #ok #say #these

Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#artists #mean #mistakes #more #often

Players are artists who create their own reality within the game. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#create #game #own #players #reality

Rembrandt painted portraits, The Karate Kid painted fences, and I paint my toenails. But I’m not a snob, I still consider those other two guys to be artists.
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— Jarod Kintz

#artists #art

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art. ↗

— Roman Payne

#artists #awkwardness #bizarre #clumsiness #good-art

The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all. ↗

— Anneli Rufus

#artists #fashion #introverts #looks #vulnerability

The public wants work which flatters its illusions. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#artists #creativity #flattery #public #readers

It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You'd have drugged "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "The Taking of Christ" right the hell out of them. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#artists #pills #art

I'm lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don't need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That's an enormous privilege. That's the privilege of all artists, to be able to sort out their unhappiness and their neuroses in order to create something. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#artists #create #enormous #enough #fears

I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#artists #muses #passion #suffering #art