Art Quote by Michael Chekhov

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds…

— Constantin Stanislavski

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

“What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, their own way of fracturing reality,…

— David Foster Wallace

A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.

— Lee Hammond

Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the…

— Alex Grey

Most artists I know have gone through some period that forces them to get to the very core of who they are.

— Melody Gardot

It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.

— Bridget Riley

Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever…

— William Saroyan

Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

— Adrienne Monnier

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

— Steven Pressfield

Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes…

— Oscar Wilde

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter…

— James Broughton