1944 Quote by Aleister Crowley

“No genuine artist views himself as superior in essence to others.”

— Laurence G. Boldt

“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms…

— Joseph Conrad

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.”

— Oscar Wilde

“He already had a sense of the ways in which white blues fans were unduly aroused by the supreme otherness of black, prewar blues…

— Amanda Petrusich

“One must possess many gifts … which have not been acquired by one’s own effort. And, moreover … the artist must possess the courageous soul.”

— Kate Chopin

“He said, I suppose there are people who are purely moved by great art. I never met a painter who was. I'm not. All…

— John Fowles

“An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is done them.”

— Marcel Proust

The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be…

— Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

“If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work”

— Jeff Chain in "Can't Stop Won't Stop A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short…

— Hilaire Belloc

“Ninety-nine percent talent…ninety-nine percent discipline…ninety-nine percent work. He must never be satisfied with what he does. It is never as good as it can…

— William Faulkner

“Part of what attracts us to artists is their otherness, their refusal to conform, their big middle finger stuck up in the face of…

— Jesse Kellerman