Art Quote by Eric Maisel

“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

All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away…

— Angela Carter

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

— Maria Semple

“An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

— Heinrich Böll

I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden…

— Auguste Rodin

Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience--but when one unmistakably isn't such an…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet,…

— Oscar Wilde

I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become…

— Michelangelo

“Any artist must simultaneously be nigh cripplingly insecure and massively egotistical.”

— Jason Erik Lundberg

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

— Erica Jong