Art Quote by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

— Pauline Kael

An artist must not feel under any constraint.

— Henri Matisse

Even a friendly conversation which cannot be at any given moment be broken off voluntarily with complete arbitrariness has something illiberal about it. An…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to…

— Moliere

The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

“The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.”

— Truman Capote

An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art.

— Peter Frampton

“An artist does not have to think about what he is doing.”

— Irving Stone

“No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.”

— Oscar Wilde

“No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist…

— Oscar Wilde

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