Accounts Quote by Massimiliano Gioni

“But I tell you, nothing is pointless, and nothing is meaningless if the artist will face it. And it’s his business to face it.…

— Katherine Ann Porter

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer…

— Sam Francis

Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression…

— Cornel West

Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

— Josh Peck

It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's…

— Andrew Wyeth

An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.

— Willa Cather

It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on…

— Cheryl Strayed

When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.

— Pat Schneider

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

— Marcel Proust

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

— Bertolt Brecht

One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or…

— Anonymous