Active Quote by Ernest Becker

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

— Ernest Becker

“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

An artist should always bite the hand that feeds him - but not too hard.

— Nam June Paik

“If an artist can occupy the void of artistry while simultaneously parodying its iconography, they can have their metaphorical cake and cannibalise its crumbs…

— Stewart Stafford

Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it…

— Ivan Brunetti

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

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

— Ira Sachs

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

— Michelangelo

Everything an artist spits is art.

— Kurt Schwitters

There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to…

— Twyla Tharp

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at…

— Matthew Collings

“An artist is merely a tool with which art molds itself.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich