Art Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us—flesh and bone—only to be spewed out again in our own works.”

— Siri Hustvedt

Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man.

— Leo Tolstoy

I always think that art is a form of sacrifice.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to take whatever…

— Dani Shapiro

“Artists are agents of chaos. It is the artists job to encourage entropy, to promote chaos. Idols must be killed, icons crushed, beliefs shattered.…

— Jonathan Culver

Art is a way of survival.

— Yoko Ono

“Art is the stored honey of the human soul.”

— Theodore Dreiser

Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one…

— Pablo Picasso

Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the…

— William Morris

“The work of the artist is to lift up people's hearts and help them endure.”

— William Faulkner

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.…

— Albert Camus