Art Quote by Chuck Close

The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process.

— Eddy Grant

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

— Anonymous

When you create art, the world has to wait.

— Will Smith

No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a…

— Francis Bacon

A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.

— Rembrandt

A great artist has to be ready to fail.

— Marina Abramovic

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

— Orson Welles

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

— Oscar Wilde

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

— Oscar Wilde

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

— Rollo May

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

— Ira Sachs