Art Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

“If you are a real artist, you give your whole being to your art. Anything short of that, then you are not an artist.”

— John Fowles

“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.”

— Annette Messager

“The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“The worst that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.”

— Joanna Rakoff

“If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to take whatever…

— Dani Shapiro

“You really are an artist, aren’t you? You think it’s all about you, and you never stop looking for pain.”

— Jessie Burton

“Your only job as an artist is to put the truth out there into the world.”

— Viola Davis

“Well, nothing helps an artist’s career more than a little death and obscurity, I always say.”

— Dan Simmons

“Just for the record, waking up on drugs with your pubic hair shaved and something plastic stuck in your vagina doesn't necessarily make you…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“An artist's role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.”

— James Baldwin

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

“The worst thing an artist can have is too much freedom.”

— Magdalena McGuire