Art Quote by Jerry Saltz

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who…

— Virginia Woolf

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

— David Hockney

I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible…

— Keith Haring

“An artist does not have to think about what he is doing.”

— Irving Stone

Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be felt when…

— Gerald Brommer

“The artistic bend is a sell-out. It's all truth, or it's no good. EIther write what's in the heart, all of it, the good,…

— Wendy K. Williamson

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

— Robert Henri

In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement…

— Herbert Spencer

“In my opinion, it is not the writer’s job to solve such problems as the existence of God, pessimism, etc. The job of the…

— Anton Chekhov

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

— Artie Shaw

And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound.…

— Plato

“An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how…

— Maxim Gorky