Art Quote by Francis Bacon

As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in…

— Martin Parr

There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where…

— Mark Matousek

Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of…

— Edward Ruscha

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.

— Joyce Johnson

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

— Damien Hirst

Once you fall into habits, I think, you're dead as an artist. You have to challenge yourself and never rest on your laurels, never…

— Jonathan Lethem

“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have…

— Walter Isaacson

Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?

— Carl Andre

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

— Erwin McManus

When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists,…

— William Morris Hunt

Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.

— Stephen De Staebler

until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.

— Marjorie Benton Cooke