Appearance Quote by Quentin Crisp

Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the…

— Cyril Connolly

Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience--but when one unmistakably isn't such an…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.

— Wayne White

I'm not a flamboyant artist.

— Rakim

“Artistic careers seem to attract a disproportionately high ratio of people with dysfunctional backgrounds, odd upbringings, multiple hang-ups, and exotic emotional deficiencies. In other…

— Graeme Thomson

In the '70s, there was no shortage of people taking themselves too seriously, as 'artistes,' if you will. I think we all had a…

— Michael McDonald

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.

— Norman Reilly Raine

Every artist who evolves a style does so from illusive elements that inhabit his or her visual storehouse.

— Mary Carroll Nelson

People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.

— Bob Ross

“Our first job as artists, then, is to venture out, away from what we think we know in search of the new and unexplored.…

— Jeff Goins

[On gay men:] Let me say, a more artistic, appreciative group of people for the arts does not exist ... They are more knowledgeable,…

— Bette Davis

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get…

— Laurie Anderson