Art Quote by Robert Henri

In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.

— Terry Pratchett

“The price an artist pays for doing what he wants is that he has to do it.”

— William S. Burroughs

“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not…

— Chaim Potok

“People assume that artists must talk about art and beauty and the sublime whenever we get together, but no, we usually talk about money.”

— Christopher Bram

“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

— James Whistler

“Every artist thus keeps within himself a single source which nourishes during his lifetime what he is and what he says.”

— Albert Camus

“He believed that any work an artist puts forth which contains the truth as he or she sees it is worthy of consideration,”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He…

— William Faulkner

“An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how…

— Maxim Gorky

“A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth…

— Julia Cameron

The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much…

— Charles Baudelaire