Access Quote by Kerry James Marshall

It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.

— Carolina Kostner

Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being satisfied.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by…

— Robert Genn

“I would venture a guess that an artist concentrating wholly unself-consciously, wholly thrown into his work, is incapable of producing pornography.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

— Kate Bush

Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy…

— Jerry Saltz

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls…

— Thom Yorke

It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted…

— Sherrie Levine

“Having conceived of a purpose, a maston should mentally mark out a straight pathway to achievement, looking neither to the right nor left. Doubts…

— Jeff Wheeler

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter…

— James Broughton

“Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a soul tortured…

— Lawrence Durrell