Inspirational Quote by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.

— Anais Nin

The successful painter is continually painting still life.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at…

— Balthus

Writing is fifty years behind painting.

— Brion Gysin

Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.

— Julia Cameron

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works…

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a…

— Donald Barthelme

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

— Christopher Bollen

If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the…

— Eugene Delacroix

I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they…

— Joe Perry

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

— Alex Katz

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche