Art Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa

I'm a writer who doesn't much think about money because money doesn't really care about me. In other nations, art gets subsidized. Writers aren't…

— Kimberly Peirce

That's like the worst - having the ability to do something and not doing it is, I think, the worst thing in the world…

— John Dolmayan

Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic.

— Micah Lexier

I think the worst thing in the world is for artists to produce themselves.

— Leo Sayer

I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but…

— Vin Diesel

When you are 'bad' in the art world they are very very scared! They want to control you... and they can't! Individuality and uniqueness…

— Laurence Gartel

One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art, and art as…

— Joseph Brodsky

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

— J. D. Salinger

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

— JR

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

— Stephen Stills

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a…

— Jasper Johns

Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.

— John Updike