Acting Quote by Sarah Bernhardt

And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain…

— Albert Camus

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive…

— Patti Smith

The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.

— Eric Maisel

It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

— Edgar Degas

Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow…

— John F. Kennedy

The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.

— Ad Reinhardt

“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have…

— Walter Isaacson

An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.

— John Thomas Sladek

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

— Oscar Wilde

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in…

— Ernest Becker

What is it that an artist does when he is left alone in his studio? My conclusion was that if I was an artist…

— Bruce Nauman

“We are talking about an artist; What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out…

— G.K. Chesterton