Artists Quotes

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.

Eric Maisel
- Failure
- Artists
- Tragic
I guess I learned a couple of good lessons from my dad. One was when you're creating something, what you want when you're working with a team of other artists, is everybody to work with some creative freedom, so that you really get the best out of everybody.

Brian Henson
- Team
- Dad
- Lessons

A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it's going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, 'Wow, that movie' - or that show or whatever - 'turned out really well.'

Bad Bunny
- People
- Quality
- Fail
In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.

Paul Klee
- Reality
- Artists
A lot of my favorite artists didn't sell much out the gate. I didn't with Common at first. Neither did first albums from Outkast, Nas, or Jay Z. It doesn't scare me.

Ernest Dion Wilson
- Artists
- Scare
- Gate
All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.

Seth Godin
- Artists
- Entrepreneurs
An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.

Eric Maisel
- Art
- Truth
- Audience