Artist Quote by Katherine Anne Porter

The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.

— Andre Gide

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.

— Eric Maisel

Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in life, the…

— Sherwood Anderson

I'm not somebody who would be a starving artist. I don't enjoy being poor, I like to sleep, I like not to have those…

— Robby Hoffman

“And yet, because I am without a doubt mortal, I have the troubling desire to do good, to please, to communicate my warmth, to…

— Rachilde

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Any artist who fails to engage with society and the vulnerability of the individual in a cruel existence should not style him-or herself an…

— Lena Andersson

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

— Karl Kraus

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

— Anna Howard Shaw

An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Mother Teresa would seek no other pulpit than the hovels of the poor, and no other sermon than her works of love, performed for…

— Joseph Langford