Eugen Herrigel Quotes

You are the artist and the art.

I'd like to walk that fine line between the authentic artist self and the manufactured artist self. I'd like to exist outside of a set of expectations or assumptions about what the Kehinde Wiley brand is. And I'd like to walk towards something that's a bit more unpredictable, human.

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

I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a type of painting I make.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.

You think you're an artist; prove it

To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life

All you can do as an artist is do what you think is an extension of you. You put down on paper ... who you are. That's what being an artist is all about. And when it gets done, you don't look back at it and say, Oh, I could have done that better.

My gift to my children would be from me to be as honest and true to myself as an artist, and put that out there to the best of my ability.

What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.

You've got to be in a place where you can put your guard down. I've got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when you make art without putting your guard down.

Your best as an artist is to create something that resonates for you.

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

Every human being is an artist

To be an artist is not about fame; it's about art, which is this intangible thing that has got to have lots of integrity, whereas being famous doesn't really take any integrity. But I think you have to admit that you want to be famous, otherwise you can't be an artist. Art and fame together are like a desire to live forever.

The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

I had always drawn, every day as long as I had held a pencil, and just assumed everyone else had too…Art had saved me and helped me fit in…Art was always my saving grace…Comedy didn’t come until much later for me. I’ve always tried to combine the two things, art and comedy, and couldn’t make a choice between the two. It was always my ambition to make comedy with an art-school slant, and art that could be funny instead of po-faced.

Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.