Art Quote by Mark Schweizer

“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent…

— Curtis Ackie

“There is always a mysterious conflict in every artist; if life treats him roughly he longs for peace and calm, but if he comes…

— Stefan Zweig

“Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from…

— Quentin Crisp

“Richard Papen: As it happened, I knew Gartrell. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of…

— Donna Tartt

“With Clemens it may truly be said that profanity was an art—a pyrotechnic art that entertained nations.”

— Franklin J. Meine

“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not…

— Chaim Potok

If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.

— Walter Becker

The artist is still a little like the old court jester. He's supposed to speak his vicious paradoxes with some sense in them, but…

— William Faulkner

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to…

— Moliere

“He had led a sheltered childhood and never learned to swear convincingly. He had long ago learned that swearing, like foreign languages, is best…

— John Godey

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

— Kate Chopin

“I am an artist. And An artist is simply a man who is pulled along by a river: on one side sanity lies, and…

— Félix J. Palma