Mary Pope Osborne Quotes

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.

I just wanna be an artist, like someone like Bjork and Kate Bush and Regina Spektor. These are people that have saved people, I think, by being what they are.

As an artist, I feel that my father's biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it's not just for business and that music is spiritual. I get that from him that music is a spiritual thing.

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life.

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

I just feel like I'm an artist that still has set a standard for artists that come up to follow and be like...So, yeah, I guess I'm a legend somewhat, I guess in my own right, but I still got a long ways to go.

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.

There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me.

Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries.

I truly find such a sense of peace and calm when I'm working, and it's an inner peace that I've never been ever to achieve, doing anything else. It's where I feel most myself. I can access my power and strength, as an artist, and I can't imagine not doing it. I love it!

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.

Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent?

I seem initially to have followed Fauvism, and then to have followed in Cézanne's footsteps. Whatever - I do not mind... as long as first of all I remained Vlaminck.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members.

Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I.