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You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with…

— Idina Menzel

It's always been a mantra to me, when making music or creating art, that you have to be vulnerable.

— MO

“Any artist who fails to engage with society and the vulnerability of the individual in a cruel existence should not style him-or herself an…

— Lena Andersson

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up…

— Bono

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a…

— Steven Pressfield

Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not…

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

“The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in…

— Arthur Phillips

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

— Richard Avedon

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.…

— Albert Camus

“A true artist willingly removes their heart, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back--bruised and aching--to continue improving due to the…

— H.G. Mewis