Art Quote by Mario De Sa-carneiro

“Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the…

— Victor Hugo

“I know. You think you love art because you have a sensitive soul. Isn't a sensitive soul simply a means of transforming a deficiency…

— Rabih Alameddine

“I refused, and still refuse, the inflated definition of artists as special people with special prerogatives and special excuses.”

— Anne Truitt

“True artists, whatever smiling faces they may show you, are obsessive, driven people—whether driven by some mania or driven by some high, noble vision…

— John Gardner

“All those happy, pretty, successful people- he hated them because he knew they didn't really exist, and he hated even more the magazine that…

— Russell Banks

I hate the whole group of artists who are so hermetic and completely indecipherable on some level and they're all proud of themselves for…

— Wayne White

“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

“Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re all the…

— Anonymous

“I tell you, the one thing I hate is an absolutist. I hate absolutist ideologies, I hate absolutist aesthetics, I hate absolutist theologies, they’re…

— Tobias Wolff

“Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good…

— Anthony Burgess

“It takes courage to make art and put it out there for people to love or hate, or even worse—ignore.”

— Christopher Greenwood

“A true artist willingly removes their heart, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back--bruised and aching--to continue improving due to the…

— H.G. Mewis