Art Quote by Mignon McLaughlin

An artist who doesn't have any audience is not an artist.

— Rokia Traore

Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.

— Eric Maisel

Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you…

— Jasper Johns

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

— Marion Cotillard

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

— Henry Miller

Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds…

— Paul Theroux

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

— Paul Valery

Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do…

— Oscar Wilde

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.

— Mos Def

Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't…

— Paula McLain

Sometimes an artist can be good and they don't get the response or the attention that they deserve.

— Koffee

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

— Dan Simmons