Art Quote by Bono

“Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us—flesh and bone—only to be spewed out again in our own works.”

— Siri Hustvedt

The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that…

— Anonymous

We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a…

— James Dickey

People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

— Russell Simmons

I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.

— Cornel West

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Every artist takes their final work to the grave.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“No true artist is possible without sorrow and suffering and renunciation.”

— Jessie Fothergill

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist…

— Rachel Field

When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.

— Nate Parker

A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is…

— Jorge Luis Borges