Art Quote by Pauline Gedge

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He…

— William Faulkner

“I refused, and still refuse, the inflated definition of artists as special people with special prerogatives and special excuses.”

— Anne Truitt

“The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.”

— Amit Kalantri

“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not…

— Chaim Potok

“Any work aspiring to be art however humble should carry its justification in every line.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Oh, my dear fellow, if you want to be a gentleman you must give up being an artist. They’ve got nothing to do with…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Art is a spirit and soul thing. Anything else is mere desperation.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

“This is the kind of touch they like: folk art, archaic, made by women, in their spare time, from things that have no further…

— Margaret Atwood

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive, at least a little bit…”

— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr