Art Quote by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

An artiste can only be happy when he is true to his art.

— Govinda

Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.

— Eric Gibbons

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is…

— Aldous Huxley

All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the…

— William Faulkner

It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world…

— Anonymous

For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost…

— Paul Auster

The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is from the…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

— Anonymous

Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done...

— Henri Matisse

“He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and…

— Henry James

“The true artist has no pride. He sees unfortunately that art has no limits; he has a vague awareness of how far he is…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn't enough for him, although precisely this concept provides everything we need to be…

— Thomas Bernhard