Art Quote by Robert Breault

If you're not a successful artist it's your fault.

— Bob Lefsetz

Far from the richest rapper, but my biggest personal achievement thus far in my life has been retiring my mom early from her job…

— J. Cole

What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade you instantly…

— Donald Barthelme

I didn't become a commercially successful artist by design, and actually I think that commercially successful just means, if you analyse it, that a…

— Phil Collins

Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous…

— Chris Abani

It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.

— Banksy

There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the specific muse…

— Bob Dylan

Greece was a muse. It inspired creativity in magical ways that I can't even begin to understand or explain.

— Joe Bonamassa

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in…

— Alice Walker

A lot of my songs are inspired by a muse of some sort, whether she's real or not.

— Borns

Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.

— Manning Marable

My mom is a great artist and she inspired me when I was young to sketch and draw, but I never took it seriously.…

— Janelle Monae