Acceptable Quote by Kenneth Tynan

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the…

— Diego Rivera

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage…

— Erica Jong

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

— Clive Bell

Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.

— Eric Gibbons

The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.

— e. e. cummings

“The artist who is too sensitive for contacts with the non-artistic world is thereby too sensitive for his vocation, and fit only to fall…

— Arnold Bennett

Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression…

— Cornel West

If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.

— Walter Becker

“The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And…

— T S Eliot

An artist doesn't necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more so! He…

— Ned Rorem

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

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible.

— Alvin Langdon Coburn