I don't want to hear at all what the artist thinks about…

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

— Ad Reinhardt

“Q: Do you feel concerned that after all this work, people won't treat [Starship Titanic] with the gravity of, say, a movie or a…

— Douglas Adams

The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a man on a sinking…

— Upton Sinclair

“Art has to be a kind of confession. I don’t mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it…

— James Baldwin

To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art.…

— Cate Marvin

“A true artist feels it, a jobbing artist thinks it”

— Russell C. Brennan

Every artist thinks his most recent work is his best. If you didn't feel like that, you wouldn't do anything.

— Dennis DeYoung

As an artist, you can work to make money, or you can be an artist who thinks about their legacy.

— Anthony Ramos

It would be mistaken to suppose that any of the best photography is come at by intellection; it is like all art, essentially the…

— Helen Levitt

The unusual thing about doing street poster art - or something with a conscious social critique in it - is that the artist thinks…

— Eric Drooker

The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.

— Alain de Botton

I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.

— Douglas Adams

The only rule I have in how I let characters tell stories is that they must always tell the reader their version of the…

— Sarah Pinborough

“When you write it, don't write it in the manner of a spooky story. Don't try to give an explanation. Just say that I…

— David Mitchell

I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching…

— Richard Bach