Adored Quote by Carmen Ejogo

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently…

— Oscar Wilde

There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

— Richard Linklater

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

— Dave Eggers

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

— Vikas Swarup

Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short…

— Hilaire Belloc

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble…

— George Santayana

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

I find that the great artists I've met are people who are so playfully invested in their process that, even if it doesn't come…

— George Saunders

A truly great artist has many talents.

— Rick Riordan

The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got…

— Aphex Twin

Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and…

— Anonymous

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

— Guy de Maupassant