Art Quote by Robert Breault

There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about…

— Jenny Diski

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

— Paul Valery

Artists have a tremendous purpose in society, which is to continually expose, to continually challenge and to never stop producing. To never stop creating,…

— Andrea Suarez Paz

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When…

— Albert Camus

“Whenever an artist becomes dominated by his own ignorance, his art loses value, for it is only the professional artist that can be humble…

— Robin Sacredfire

An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool

— Michael Jackson

Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimacy. All art draws its origin from an exceptional fault, each…

— Maurice Blanchot

When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists,…

— William Morris Hunt

“It is often said that great works of art are “inexhaustible”—capable, as Stanley Olson put it, of “endless interpretation. But Lubin, the Charlotte C.…

— Roger Kimball

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its…

— Michael Kimmelman

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

— Randall Jarrell

Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in…

— Francis Bacon