Art Quote by Sherwood Anderson

“Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let’s face it,…

— Betty Edwards

There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists…

— Athol Fugard

I decided that the whole idea of what it means to be an artist was that somehow you are ontologically oriented toward poverty :…

— Kerry James Marshall

“You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not…

— Oscar Wilde

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

— Philip Schultz

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

— Willie Nelson

“A writer who makes serious money is never taken seriously. Writers and artists are expected to suffer poverty and privation for their art; it’s…

— Jessica Zafra

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

— Irving Stone

“Artistic careers seem to attract a disproportionately high ratio of people with dysfunctional backgrounds, odd upbringings, multiple hang-ups, and exotic emotional deficiencies. In other…

— Graeme Thomson

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

— Nhat Hanh

It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for himself, or…

— Edgar Degas

“The paradox of being a professional artist. How we spend our lives trying to express ourselves well, but we have nothing to tell. We…

— Chuck Palahniuk