Art Quote by Darnell Lamont Walker

“Cultural blackmail has gone on for decades, with the artist loudly blaspheming everything his patrons hold dear-while suckling at their teats.”

— Charles Krauthammer

“Artists often enslave their friends.”

— Anonymous

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The artist’s secret lies in fear and awe. Our times have turned them into terror and dismay.”

— Hugo Ball

“Her secret? It is every artist's secret--passion. That is all. It is an open secret, and perfectly safe. Like heroism, it is inimitable in…

— Willa Cather

“The soul of an artist is a tortured one, forever capturing their version of reality.”

— Belinda Taylor

“Yet, in the middle of all this grief, I realize there’s a part of me clinical enough to want to document it. People talk…

— Kirsty Eagar

“No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist…

— Oscar Wilde

“The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“Just for the record, being smeared with shit and naked in the wilderness, spattered with pink vomit, this does not necessarily make you a…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re all the…

— Anonymous

“Any artist must simultaneously be nigh cripplingly insecure and massively egotistical.”

— Jason Erik Lundberg