Art Quote by Abraham Maslow

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

— Abraham Maslow

“The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.”

— Truman Capote

“Could a person choose to be or not to be an artist?”

— Tom Robbins

“He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn't enough for him, although precisely this concept provides everything we need to be…

— Thomas Bernhard

“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent…

— Curtis Ackie

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

“And underneath everything, whatever phase the world has gone into, there must be artists, there must be musicians, there must be writers. They are…

— Jillian Sullivan

“To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gift -absolute gifts- which have not been acquired by one's effort. And, moreover, to…

— Kate Chopin

“poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist.”

— Walter Isaacson

“I am an artist. And An artist is simply a man who is pulled along by a river: on one side sanity lies, and…

— Félix J. Palma

“If you consider yourself to be an artist, then be an artist.”

— Alexandra Bracken

“A poet is a musician that can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's…

— Patrick Rothfuss