Nick Cave Artist Quotations

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.

We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?"

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.