Accepted Quote by Henri Langlois

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes…

— Julia Cameron

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

— Emile Zola

Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle always seeks…

— Eric Gibbons

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

— Roman Payne

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

— Scott Adams

A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable

— Daniel Johns

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible.

— Jean Dubuffet

It's not so much that art is difficult to make; it's that the structures and the kind of prejudices that the art world constructs…

— Fab Moretti

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

— Scott Adams

If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to…

— Cennino Cennini