As an artist I come to sing but as a citizen I will always speak for peace and no one can silence me in this.

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists but simply announce that they are don't have the patience to make art.

Artists know that diligence counts as much if not more as inspiration in art as in politics patience counts as much as revolution.

Do you want to be an artist and a writer or a wife and a lover? With kids your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside it's a painful difficult search within.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

The artist is the confidant of nature flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

To any artist worthy of the name all in nature is beautiful because his eyes fearlessly accepting all exterior truth read there as in an open book all the inner truth.

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.