Madonna Ciccone Quotes

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I just wanted to be an artist. I didn't care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

Every man is an artist.

I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

My passion for painting is so sacred and personal to me.

As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

I continue to write. It's just one of those things that I do. I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore and that's no good.

An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

Normal people do not create art.

Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

Just trying to live our lives and figuring out how to turn that into art. It's tough to say that the art was premeditated. Instead you just focused on living. 'How do I want to live? What do I want to do?' Then you figured out how to make that into art.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Artists need to express.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

I liked drawing and painting, because the only failure would be to listen to the doubters who wanted me to stop drawing and painting because 'you aren't going to make a living doing that.' I liked looking in art books at the work of painters.

In a lot of the art world, you have to present yourself as you know what you're doing at a young age. Music gave me another outlet. The 'no wave' bands were such an inspiration; it felt so free - once you start doing it, it's hard to stop. But I can't get away from art. It comes back around. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't pursue it.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.