Art Quote by Ernest Becker

We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again…

— Ernest Becker

“An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art.”

— Lee Simonson

“Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us—flesh and bone—only to be spewed out again in our own works.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“I have treated many artists. There are among them many neurotics, so many that one finally comes to believe that one cannot be an…

— Paul Tournier

“If you don’t want your best work to die with you, you must train yourself to think and live differently than the ways we’ve…

— Jeff Goins

“Rank asked why the artist so often avoids clinical neurosis when he is so much a candidate for it because of his vivid imagination,…

— Ernest Becker

“Artists, on the other hand, talk to determine what works, what does not, and why. Their focus is more on the micro; it moves…

— David Salle

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not…

— Chaim Potok

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

— Leo Tolstoy

“To achieve works of meaning, a writer (or any artist) must cut into himself and leave his soul on the canvas, exposed for anyone…

— Mardra Sikora

“A plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive, at least a little bit…”

— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr