Art Quote by Cornel West

Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression…

— Cornel West

I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for…

— Francis Bacon

Only a sad man can be a good artist.

— IndraneeL

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

— Gertrude Stein

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

— Henry Miller

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No true artist is possible without sorrow and suffering and renunciation.”

— Jessie Fothergill

Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss. Joy. Sacrifice.

— Kathy Baker

There are different kinds of artists: the ones that inspire you, and the ones that overwhelm you.

— Thomas Mars

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

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

— Oscar Wilde

“What can be sadder than a discouraged artist dying not from his own commonplace maladies, but from the cancer of oblivion?”

— Vladimir Nabokov