Artist Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer…

— Sam Francis

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

— Irving Stone

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.

— Nate Parker

“In the corridor the dying man had at last ceased his thrashing. Blood no longer spurted from his neck but simply oozed out onto…

— Tom Wood

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“He connected with the storytelling in the manuscript painting, he said, because it was clear to him that this artist, working hundreds of years…

— Christian Madsbjerg

“It is almost impossible to express the extraordinary silence that came over everyone whose eyes were fixed on the painting––not a rustle, not a…

— Nikolai Gogol

His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fellHis troubled…

— Siegfried Sassoon

His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an…

— William S. Burroughs

“The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist…

— Rachel Field

When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.

— Pat Schneider