Art Quote by Paul Gauguin

It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't feel deprived in not completing my artistic endeavors.

— Alice Coltrane

In my teens I fancied myself an artist; I hung out with the eccentric art teacher at my high school, painted still lifes and…

— Christina Baker Kline

I've always felt like I needed to experience some type of anguish in order to feel productive as an artist.

— Michelle Zauner

I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost…

— Elisabeth Shue

I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were…

— Edgar Degas

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any…

— Wole Soyinka

I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

— Vivek Shraya

I know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way.

— Patty Duke

I unfortunately do suffer for my art.

— Ridley Scott

My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something…

— Samuel Beckett

I don't know what I would've done without it. I really struggled in school with reading and writing. Art was my refuge - my…

— Petra Collins