Art Quote by Clarence Day

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation

— Lewis Hyde

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

— Rita Dove

What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so…

— Jane Hirshfield

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

— Andre Gide

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

— Albert Camus

A mystery confounds the problem of industry in art. In the last analysis, to work is simply not enough. But we have to act…

— Anne Truitt

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

— Nick Cave

ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is…

— Robert Henri

There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path.

— Julia Cameron

We do not make art. We have unnamable motors and dangerous impulses that occupy our thoughts.

— Richard Prince

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.

— George Saunders