Art Quote by Rebecca West

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might long to…

— Donald Barthelme

The hallmark of the artist is simplicity.

— Larry Evans

One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.

— Eugene Delacroix

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field,…

— Andre Malraux

And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound.…

— Plato

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

— Willem de Kooning

Who will dare say he has defined art?

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

— Kate Chopin

The art of art... is simplicity.

— Walt Whitman

Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman.

— Jeet Aulakh

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

— Charles Bukowski