Accidents Quote by Catherine Drinker Bowen

“Even the most talented artists have flaws and limitations that no amount of training can overcome, just as even the most exceptional individuals have…

— Matt Fitzgerald

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are…

— Julian Casablancas

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

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.

— Joyce Johnson

Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.

— Peter M. Brant

I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become…

— Michelangelo

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 artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be…

— Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

A lot of people have a misconception about artists, that they're invincible, you know, they're on a different plateau. But I'm just a human…

— Taboo

I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I don't believe artists should be subjected to experiences that harden the sensibilities; without sensibility no fine work can ever be done.

— Janet Scudder

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