Accepting Quote by John Cassavetes

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

— Keith Jarrett

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

— Tom Bissell

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

— Craig Raine

Nothing can stop an artist from creating.

— Invader

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

An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.

— Herbert Read

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

— George Bernard Shaw

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be…

— Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

“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

Art solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art.

— Clement Greenberg