Art Quote by John Gardner

“An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“A true great artist at heart never ceases to create, continuously amazes and keeps sharing his gift despite barriers, judgement, fears and dreaded myths.…

— Elizabeth E. Castillo

“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

All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away…

— Angela Carter

“Thanks for your encouraging words. But I know the grim realities of being an artist. Most of us would never make a mark in…

— Abhaidev

“When you judge your art with number of likes you get in response to it, you're killing the artist within, and giving rise to…

— Sameer Khan

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as…

— Ayn Rand

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Any artist must simultaneously be nigh cripplingly insecure and massively egotistical.”

— Jason Erik Lundberg

“Art transcends selfish and obsessive limitations of personality and can enlarge the sensibility of its consumer. It is a kind of goodness by proxy.…

— Iris Murdoch

“Part of what attracts us to artists is their otherness, their refusal to conform, their big middle finger stuck up in the face of…

— Jesse Kellerman

“In art vanity is equally fatal to sympathetic feeling, whether on the part of the artist or the public.”

— Kakuzō Okakura