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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

— Francis Bacon

I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of "oblivion" and who consider placing themselves into the world of "oblivion" as…

— Yasumasa Morimura

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the…

— Diego Rivera

“I should like to direct the attention of artists. A constant producer, a man who is a "mother" in the grand sense of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existance”

— Woody Allen

A man must be master of himself and master of his word to achieve the full realization of himself as an artist

— Robert Henri

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease…

— Wassily Kandinsky

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with…

— Georges Rouault

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he…

— Giuseppe Verdi

“Any artist who fails to engage with society and the vulnerability of the individual in a cruel existence should not style him-or herself an…

— Lena Andersson