Art Quote by John Updike

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only…

— Alberto Giacometti

The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance,…

— Vanna Bonta

When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience.…

— C. S. Lewis

For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his…

— Charles Ives

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he…

— Oscar Wilde

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only…

— Alberto Giacometti

The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

— Rachel Cusk

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

— William Faulkner

Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period…

— Gustave Courbet

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

— Oscar Wilde

“True Artistic Freedom is in Having No Desire Of Rewards”

— Dean Cavanagh