Art Quote by Ernest J. Gaines

“Pretending to care what men think is an art. It takes moments to learn, but lifetimes to master. I’d like to believe I’m an…

— Anonymous

“No genuine artist views himself as superior in essence to others.”

— Laurence G. Boldt

“I am quite sure ... I have no race prejudice, and I think I have no color prejudices, nor caste prejudices. Indeed, I know…

— Mark Twain

“Any artist who has ever created something worthwhile has done so by staying true to himself. You can't do it any other way.”

— Jerrod Edson

It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them. And perhaps it is the case that the greatest…

— Walt Whitman

“Every artist thus keeps within himself a single source which nourishes during his lifetime what he is and what he says.”

— Albert Camus

“You really are an artist, aren’t you? You think it’s all about you, and you never stop looking for pain.”

— Jessie Burton

“This is what the great artists manage. They flatter us, by observing better than others and then speaking to each of us as individuals…

— Tristan Gooley

“Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the…

— Chaim Potok

“Who can know the heart of a man?”

— Alice McDermott

“But I tell you, nothing is pointless, and nothing is meaningless if the artist will face it. And it’s his business to face it.…

— Katherine Ann Porter

“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to…

— Samuel Butler