Acclaim Quote by Robert Breault

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

People become artists out of despair.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.

— Susan Sontag

The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that…

— Peter Schjeldahl

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful,…

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is from the…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

— Robert Breault

It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can…

— Julia Cameron

“A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent”

— Oscar Wilde

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims…

— Andre Gide

When you celebrate somebody's bad work on the terms that define their good work, how can that artist have anything but contempt for an…

— Greil Marcus

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde