Art Quote by Laird Barron

“But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination. ”

— Oscar Wilde

“The impulse to explain is the Achilles’ heel of all genre work, and the most sophisticated artists within every genre know better than to…

— Tom Bissell

“Force, in overabundance, is the enemy of artistry.”

— Tom Verducci

“You know, with talented people.... They draw people to themselves, and without even trying to, they tear them to shreds.”

— Kamoshida Hajime

“The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how…

— Ron Brackin

“No artist wants to stumble, certainly not in front of their audience, but sometimes that's what it takes”

— Joe Satriani

“An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is done them.”

— Marcel Proust

“The true artist has no pride. He sees unfortunately that art has no limits; he has a vague awareness of how far he is…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

“Our great artists battle on a landscape we cannot chart, with weapons we do not comprehend, against adversaries we find unreal.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“What an absurd torture for the artist to know that an audience identifies him with a work that, within himself, he has moved beyond…

— Thomas Mann

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde