Art Quote by Agatha Christie

As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.

— Parker Posey

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

— Sean Penn

Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.

— Gary Holland

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and…

— Marvin Gaye

Art is a way of recognizing oneself...

— Louise Bourgeois

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

— Irving Stone

I never had the sense of myself as an accomplished artist, and I always had to work three times as hard as anyone else…

— Toshiko Takaezu

I never have been a musician; I'm not actually capable. Because I can't even pretend to acquire the gift, all of my first feelings…

— Jonathan Lethem

The interesting part about being an artist is that the ways in which you express yourself are not always readily available.

— Chris Sullivan

There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.

— Ernst Gombrich

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

— Jasper Johns

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom…

— Beverly Pepper