Art Quote by Mos Def

It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.

— Bebe Rexha

It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm.

— Jim Rowe

It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.

— Hisham Matar

I think you just have to cross your fingers that there's enough artists out there that keep producing interesting work, and eventually it will…

— Geddy Lee

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

— Melody Gardot

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

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions...

— Andres Serrano

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make…

— W. Somerset Maugham

. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns…

— Kim Addonizio

I think every artist reaches a place where they want to transcend genre.

— Lecrae

There's only one passion in most artists more violent than their desire for admiration: their fear of identifying the nature of such admiration as…

— Ayn Rand

A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

— Jerry Saltz