Art Quote by Sean O Faolain

You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that…

— David Cronenberg

There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks…

— Vaclav Havel

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live…

— George Saunders

“If what any artist has to say is fundamentally human and profound the public will ultimately take his work unto itself. But if his…

— Ben Shahn

Every artist of importance creates his own world, with its own laws - creates and shapes it in his own shape and image, and…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the…

— Chaim Potok

“An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms…

— Joseph Conrad

The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he…

— Eric Maisel

The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends…

— Paul Strand

“The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective…

— E E Cummings

“For isn't the artist by nature a revolutionary?”

— Joyce Carol Oates