Art Quote by Derek R. Audette

Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with…

— Walter J. Phillips

It's very difficult for me to dislike an artist. No matter what he's creating, the fact that he's experiencing the joy of creation makes…

— Chick Corea

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

— Robert Breault

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

— Oscar Wilde

By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and…

— William Faulkner

I feel like all the artists that I really love, they've had a strong contingent of people who really hate their work as well.

— Girl Talk

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.

— Osamu Dazai

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to…

— Moliere

I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back…

— Ryan McGinley

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make…

— David Bowie

Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short…

— Hilaire Belloc

If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet…

— Ellen Terry