Art Quote by Austin Kleon

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He…

— William Faulkner

“The price an artist pays for doing what he wants is that he has to do it.”

— William S. Burroughs

“You know what Picasso says. ‘Bad artists copy, good artists steal.”

— Donna Tartt

“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not…

— Chaim Potok

“Picasso said “good artists copy but great artists steal.”

— Sean Patrick

“Sometimes the only way to understand an artist is to wear his shoes, to get inside him. Then everything else flows naturally.”

— André Aciman

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

“Every artist thus keeps within himself a single source which nourishes during his lifetime what he is and what he says.”

— Albert Camus

“The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Any artist who has ever created something worthwhile has done so by staying true to himself. You can't do it any other way.”

— Jerrod Edson

“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“That’s the value of artists, isn’t it? Even when they aren’t aware of it, they’re dreaming our dreams for us.”

— Tom Robbins