Art Quote by Marjorie Benton Cooke

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Being an artist is a job for life.

— Brian Eno

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

— Peter Porter

As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll…

— Chuck Palahniuk

As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.

— Rufus Wainwright

“You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort”

— Amy Tan

The thing is, if you're going to take the artistic path, you sort of have to make peace with the idea or the possibility…

— Lela Loren

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

— William Boyd

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

— Richard Avedon

An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.

— Peter Handke

It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.

— Banksy

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

— Keith Jarrett