“I think the biggest thing I learned is that sky’s the limit if you find a companion artistically, and you have a project.”— Bradley Cooper, ew.com
“If you can’t be fearless making music and art, then I would say get out of the way.”— Wayne Coyne, salon.com
“We need to be able to be in situations where you can be irresponsible. That’s one of the great privileges of an artist. An artist should be irresponsible in a way — a 3-year-old.”— Kanye West, wral.com
“I see a camera like a musical instrument. Just start playing it. Whatever camera you can get your hands on. Learning HOW to play is more important than WHAT brand you’re playing the music with.”— Ryan Pernofski, twitter.com
“I honestly just enjoy creating. Photography, jewelry, music, acting, art, design. I'm always looking for the next thing.”— Jessie Andrews, officemagazine.net
“Please don’t make the mistake of thinking the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid, and damaging idea. You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art, to write beautiful things.”— Tim Minchin, goodreads.com
“I think it’s terribly dangerous for an artist to fulfill other people’s expectations. If you feel safe in the area that you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And…”— David Bowie, amazon.com
“I just wanted to create powerful images and use photography as a medium much in the same way as a painter uses paint as a medium.”— Michael Spencer Jones, itsnicethat.com
“Bit by bit, putting it together... Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art. Every moment makes a contribution, Every little detail plays a part. Having just the vision's no solution, Everything depends on execution, Putting it together, that's what counts.”— Stephen Sondheim, en.wikipedia.org
“I do not paint by copying nature. Everything I do springs from my wild imagination.”— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com
“In order to produce something new, you have to return to the original source, to the childhood of mankind.”— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com
“I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet, to be rid of the influence of civilization. I want only to do simple, very simple art, and to be able to do that, I have to immerse myself in virgin nature, see no one but savages, live their life, with no other thought in mind but to render, the way a…”— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com
“Real artists have day jobs, and night jobs, and afternoon jobs. Real artists make things other than art, and then they make time to make art because art is screaming to get out from inside them. Screaming, or begging, or gently whispering. Don’t ever let them tell you you’re not a success. Don’t eve…”— Sara Benincasa, medium.com
“Sit as little as possible; do not believe any idea that was not born in the open air and of free movement.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Art is the kind of marathon where you cross the finish line and instead of getting a medal placed around your neck, the volunteers roughly grab you by the shoulders and walk you over to the starting line of another marathon.”— Ryan Holiday, amazon.com
“I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into another world you go.”— Mark Ryden, markryden.com
“Things-As-They-Are offer such an abundance of material that a photographer must guard against the temptation of trying to do everything.”— Henri Cartier-Bresson, rethinked.org