Anatomy Quote by Anonymous

That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines…

— Anonymous

Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil.

— William Shakespeare

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

— Leonardo da Vinci

One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he…

— Rebecca West

The audience's imagination will do a better, more personalized version of the horror than you can actually paint. So that just, you know, with…

— Jordan Peele

Most fears are just illusions.

— Gary Null

It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.

— Samuel R. Delany

I live in a box of paints I'm frightened by the devil And I'm drawn to those ones that ain't afraid

— Joni Mitchell

“Bad art is always basically creepy; that is its first and most obvious identifying sign”

— John Gardner

“The image is an example of how horror writers view our world. A view that is far from the norm. Their writing always seeking…

— A.K. Kuykendall

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

— Louise Bourgeois