Art Quote by John Berryman

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

— Isaac Asimov

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work…

— Anonymous

An artist is his own fault.

— John O'Hara

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

— Robin Trower

When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.

— Susan Sontag

The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.

— Al Alvarez

An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.

— W. Eugene Smith

One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and art as…

— Joseph Brodsky

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason…

— Alma Gluck

I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a…

— Marilyn Monroe

The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that…

— Peter Schjeldahl