Art Quote by Eric Maisel

Let the artist have just enough to eat, and the tools of this trade: ask nothing of him. Materially make the life of the…

— Clive Bell

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He…

— William Faulkner

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for.…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor…

— Robin G. Collingwood

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

“The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work on the proceeds, is the most familiar of all…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they…

— Aldous Huxley

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

— Keith Jarrett

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

— William Faulkner

Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

— Henri Matisse

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art…

— Jack White

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

— Anonymous