Achievement Quote by Mark Matousek

As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in…

— Martin Parr

Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in…

— Francis Bacon

People become artists out of despair.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Whoever says artists can't deal with corporate pressures because they have frail minds, is missing out on the potential the artistic mind has to…

— Martin Dansky

Many artists give up after a while.

— Angie Stone

Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow…

— John F. Kennedy

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

I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity.…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.

— Mos Def

When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.

— Susan Sontag

“Our first job as artists, then, is to venture out, away from what we think we know in search of the new and unexplored.…

— Jeff Goins

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps…

— Logan Pearsall Smith