Artist Quote by David Foster Wallace

“When I met Wittgenstein, I saw that Schlick's warnings were fully justified. But his behavior was not caused by any arrogance. In general, he…

— Rudolf Carnap

“ He was of the opinion... that his ideas were generally misunderstood and distorted even by those who professed to be his disciples. He…

— Georg Henrik von Wright

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

— Oscar Wilde

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

— Isaac Asimov

“In my opinion, it is not the writer’s job to solve such problems as the existence of God, pessimism, etc. The job of the…

— Anton Chekhov

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

— Georges Rouault

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think…

— Randall Jarrell

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who…

— Virginia Woolf

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

— Philip Roth

The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by…

— Antoni Tapies

“An artist is identical with an anarchist,' he cried. 'You might transpose the words anywhere. An anarchist is an artist. The man who throws…

— G.K. Chesterton