Always Quote by Charles Ray

When I start to paint, it is real agony. I get nervous. The day before, I am already working up to it. Then I…

— Luc Tuymans

I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.

— Jeff Koons

I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.

— Mark Ruffalo

Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.

— Susan Sontag

The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's…

— Michael Moore

Do I suffer for my art? Well, I get a lot of flatulence when I'm nervous.

— Martin Clunes

In a way, art has always been my way of problem-solving, of getting through situations, of finding my response to things, so to imagine…

— Tom Burr

The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.

— Damien Hirst

I'm always nervous about it. You know, somehow, without even knowing it, I try and recreate the idea of what it feels like to…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.

— Matt Wagner

I do real paintings, you know. I'm a little messy in the studio, so I'm a bit of a danger. But I just adore…

— Jaron Lanier

Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling…

— Jerry Saltz