Art Quote by Marcel Duchamp

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

— John Milius

Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.

— Sherwood Anderson

I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

— Ezra Pound

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution…

— Susan Griffin

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

— Jean Cocteau

artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.

— Phyllis Bottome

It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive…

— Nate Lowman

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.

— Joyce Johnson

After too much art that made too much sense, artists are operating blind again. They're more interested in the possible than the probable, the…

— Jerry Saltz

It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that,…

— Oscar Isaac

A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important…

— Hilary Rosen