Art Quote by Asger Jorn

The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive.

— Howard Barker

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.

— Sebastian Horsley

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason…

— Alma Gluck

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

— Keith Jarrett

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

— Montgomery Clift

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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

— Francis Bacon

It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

— Edgar Degas

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as…

— Max Ernst

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave…

— Edwin Booth

The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or…

— Sarah Bernhardt

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

— Harry Crews