Art Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“Panem et circenses.”

— Juvenal

“...I knew he had something that so many of my other students were lacking... desire. Not just the desire to create because for an…

— Darian North

“And it is partly the transience of it that delights me; so much loving preparation, so much art and experience, put into a pleasure…

— Joanne Harris

“One must possess many gifts … which have not been acquired by one’s own effort. And, moreover … the artist must possess the courageous soul.”

— Kate Chopin

“Art is the one thing man creates not out of need or luxury; therefore, it is the purest essence of his individuality.”

— Anthony Paolucci

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is done them.”

— Marcel Proust

“He is both the artist and the work of art. He sees beauty, he creates beauty, and he is beauty. He is the lie…

— Elisa Lorello

“He can be so appreciative of all forms of art, but so matter-of-fact and unemotional about it.”

— Dodie Smith