Art Quote by Glenn Gould

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

— Richard Avedon

This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if…

— Georgiana Burne-Jones

As an artist, the most important feeling is loneliness. So when I say artists need to isolate themselves from society this is what I…

— Zhang Xiaogang

“Art really does instruct us in how to think, feel, and behave. To be an artist is to have great power. To be the…

— Rod Dreher

Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the…

— Alex Grey

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then…

— Andrew Wyeth

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

— Robin G. Collingwood

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

— Talib Kweli

As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

— Karel Appel

Some people in our society specialise in stopping creative people from doing what they do.

— Manoj Kumar

The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human emotions while…

— Karel Appel

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

— John F. Kennedy