Alcoholics Quote by Natalie Goldberg

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

— Jean Cocteau

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

People drink to numb the pain and suffering. I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art…

— Marilyn Manson

It is essential for artistes to have that release of creativity, almost as necessary as eating food or drinking water.

— Akshaye Khanna

“If you don’t want your best work to die with you, you must train yourself to think and live differently than the ways we’ve…

— Jeff Goins

“An artist must either give up art or develop. There are, of course, two ways of giving up: stopping altogether or taking the familiar…

— Pauline Kael

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in…

— William Faulkner

There are so few people who can really take hold of art and sort of eat and chew it up. Somehow it's got to…

— Twyla Tharp

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.

— Joyce Johnson

People sometimes get a little extra criticism when they try something that they don't normally do, but I think that's just a natural thing…

— Kristen Wiig

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason…

— Alma Gluck

When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.

— Susan Sontag