Top 200 Artist Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.”

— Steven Pressfield

102. “Artists are here to disturb the peace.”

— James Baldwin

103. “Music can change the world because it can change people.”

— Bono

104. “I didn’t choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.”

— Tupac Shakur

105. “God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.”

— Pablo Picasso

106. “Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.”

— Constantin Brancusi

107. “It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love.”

— John Lennon

108. “A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”

— Diane Arbus

109. “Ever make mistakes in life? Let’s make them birds. Yeah, they’re birds now.”

— Bob Ross

110. “It’s OK to be different.”

— Gerard Way

111. “Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.”

— Bob Ross

112. “If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.”

— Anaïs Nin

113. “Let it be.”

— Paul McCartney

114. “I love what I do, I love my job.”

— Pharrell Williams

115. “Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy.”

— Suzy Kassem

116. “If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.”

— Pablo Picasso

117. “You don’t have to be afraid because we’re all the same.”

— Shawn Mendes

118. “One must give value to one’s existence by behaving as if one’s very existence were a work of art.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

119. “They Have Money For War But Can’t Feed The Poor.”

— Tupac Shakur

120. “I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

— Jimi Hendrix

121. “As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.”

— Vincent van Gogh

122. “I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.”

— Michael Jackson

123. “As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.”

— Andy Warhol

124. “Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting my friends.”

— John Lennon

125. “In spite of everything, I shall rise again.”

— Vincent van Gogh

126. “Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.”

— Kanye West

127. “Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.”

— Lady Gaga

128. “Play the game, never let the game play you.”

— Tupac Shakur

129. “If you don’t know me, don’t judge me.”

— Tupac Shakur

130. “Make jokes. No stress. Love. Live Life. Proceed. Progress.”

— Lil Wayne

131. “The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.”

— Michelangelo

132. “All Children are Artists.”

— Pablo Picasso

133. “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

134. “Where’s your will to be weird?”

— Jim Morrison

135. “You’ll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.”

— Charlie Chaplin

136. “People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.”

— Taylor Swift

137. “Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about.”

— Rumi

138. “No matter how hard it gets, keep your chest out, keep your head up and handle it.”

— Tupac Shakur

139. “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”

— E.E. Cummings

140. “I think I fell in love with words before I fell in love with music.”

— Taylor Swift

141. “Me, myself and I. That’s all I got in the end.”

— Beyoncé Knowles

142. “There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.”

— Michelangelo

143. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for.”

— Rumi

144. “Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter’s soul.”

— Vincent van Gogh

145. “The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters; creation is all.”

— Pablo Picasso

146. “Excuse me while I kiss the sky.”

— Jimi Hendrix

147. “We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We’re creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We’re rewriting the history of human thought with what we’re doing.”

— Steve Jobs

148. “I can’t tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.”

— Eminem

149. “If you’re going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.”

— Charles Bukowski

150. “The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”

— James Baldwin