Neil Gaiman Quotes

When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician -- make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor -- make good art. IRS on your trail -- make good art. Cat exploded -- make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before -- make good art.

Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.

Don't think about making art.

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

Your life is a work of art, and in the end, the underlying theme of great art is bravery and hope and love.

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give some art that will touch some people and help them to be more positive and stronger.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Make good art.

Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.

I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head.

I get through difficult situations by looking at how other people have gone through them. I say to myself, 'If they can go through it, then I can.' Or, If they can go through worse, I can go through whatever I'm going through.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

You just have to do your art. Nothing can stop you.

I wasn't in the art world at all as a kid; I was just creative, and we were always doing arts and crafts.

Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn't finding my way in, I knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

Trixie Mattel is a product of bad things that happened to me, and it's how I deal with things. It's wonderful.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

Music is the first thing I didn't give up.

In a lot of ways, the cool thing about modeling is that other people and artists I look up to are able to project their artistic visions onto me, and it was really exciting to be a muse in that way and carry out a vision.

Art is a primal need - even under siege, especially under siege.

I don’t have a problem baring my emotions in music. That’s one of the reasons I’m glad to have music in my life. I’m pretty resilient as far as being a human being. A lot of songs write themselves.