Art Quote by Anthony Burgess

Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done...

— Henri Matisse

Nobody needs an Artist, but everyone needs ART.

— Laurence Gartel

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

— Henri Matisse

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

— Marion Cotillard

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

— Oscar Wilde

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

— Joni Mitchell

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

When a real artist creates something, it has to be a necessity, the only way he can say something.

— Sylvie Guillem

The great artist takes what he needs.

— Kenneth Clark