Art Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

I think artists sometimes go back to something when we never should, for many different reasons. You hear a lot of stories that make…

— Gza

“The real artists are those who pick up their age exactly at the point to which it has been carried by preceding times. To…

— Gustave Courbet

The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind.

— Seth

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've…

— Sally Mann

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

— George Orwell

There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs... After a while everything you do is just wonderful... then you slide back. If…

— Milton Resnick

So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four…

— Julia Cameron

There are a lot of artists that return to the same subject. Whether it's the natural subject, or the focus or the subconscious focus…

— Steve Toltz

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

— Eli Broad

Many artists feel resistance on the way up.

— Chanel West Coast

“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

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of…

— Jasper Johns