El artista es un coleccionista, no un acumulador y claro que hay una diferencia: los acumuladores coleccionan indiscriminadamente, los artistas lo hacen selectivamente, solo coleccionan cosas que de verdad les gustan”.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t
know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder
why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or
steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

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.

To be an artist is to recognize the particular. To appreciate the peculiar. To allow a sense of play in your relationship to accepted standards. To ask the question “Why?” To be an artist is to risk admitting that much of what is money, property, and prestige strikes you as just a little silly.

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

An artist is a bloke who can hold two fundamentally opposing views and still function:

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Many artists are addicts, and vice versa. Many are artists in one breath and addicts in another. What's the difference? The addict is the amateur; the artist is the professional.

an artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself