Art Quote by John Updike

“The creative artist has something in common with the hero. Though functioning on another plane, he too believes that he has solutions to offer.…

— Henry Miller

Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

— Madeleine L'Engle

I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity.…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

Some writers such as John Cheever and Raymond Carver seem to draw artistic energy from analyzing the realm of their own experiences - their…

— Amor Towles

“Artistic talent is like a brilliant firework which streaks across a pitch-black night, inspiring awe among onlookers but extinguishing itself in seconds, leaving behind…

— Alain de Botton

Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light…

— Tom Hiddleston

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our…

— Henry James

And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is a leap into the dark.

— Pablo Picasso

When I was growing up, all the art that touched me was lens-generated, like Gerhard Richter, or Polke, Rauschenberg, Warhol.

— Wolfgang Tillmans

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

My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't…

— Robert Wyatt