Artist Quote by Marisha Pessl

“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

My paintings seem to make the strongest impression on people who are, well, who are crazy,

— H. R. Giger

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

— Peter Weiss

Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.

— Steven Pressfield

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision,…

— Carine Roitfeld

But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative…

— Brenda Ueland

“The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to the dark powers of non-Being. It is no accident that many…

— David N. Elkins

Some people can do one thing magnificently, like Michelangelo, and others make things like semiconductors or build 747 airplanes -- that type of work…

— Steve Jobs

Status and class and social anxiety and perhaps social code are all released when you look at paintings of powerful individuals from the past.

— Kehinde Wiley

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a…

— Edward Hopper

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if…

— Anna Katharine Green

Paintings may not have nearly the power to convert people that the printed or spoken word has, but each man has his part to…

— William Kurelek