Art Quote by Anne Truitt

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

— Tom Robbins

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

— Truman Capote

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

— Laurence G. Boldt

“The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how…

— Ron Brackin

“Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good…

— Anthony Burgess

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

— Oscar Wilde

“No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist…

— Oscar Wilde

“The worst thing an artist can have is too much freedom.”

— Magdalena McGuire

“... but now men who could work preferred to beg, and the artists forgot that their calling was noble and became imitators instead of…

— Pauline Gedge

“To be an artist means a lifetime of being told no, with the occasional yes showing up just to give you enough hope to…

— Jami Attenberg

“An artist can do whatever the artist want. The work they do will not always be appreciated by all, but still it's their work…

— Atle Jarnæs Lerøy

“An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson