Art Quote by Eric Maisel

... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.

— Maria Semple

“No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of…

— Elfriede Jelinek

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

— Marion Cotillard

The artist knows he must be alone to create; the writer, to work out his thoughts; the musician, to compose; the saint, to pray.…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.

— William Faulkner

The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that…

— Peter Schjeldahl

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

— Henry James

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

— Eric Maisel

I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in…

— Shea Hembrey

“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

The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.

— Steven Pressfield