Artist Quotes

"The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed" "Thank you for the tragedy I need it for my art" "Being an artist doesn’t start because you’re twenty-one, and it doesn’t stop because you’re fifty-one. You are who you are until the day you die." "An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way." "No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger." "The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important." "I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize." "I’m just trying to make music everybody can get something from." "I will die for the art for what I believe in" "You can teach someone to make music, but you can't teach them to be an artist." "When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character." "I feel like a little bit, like, I'm the Braveheart of creativity." "The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious" "To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now." "The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice"