Accountability Quote by Stacie Orrico

A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.

— Joyce Johnson

People become artists out of despair.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

— Paul Auster

It's sad that some people still believe that artists die poor. This is not the case in this day and age.

— St. Lucia

Honestly, I really can't speak on others, but in a sense, I feel like every artist always has their problems with the industry because…

— Travis Scott

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

— John French Sloan

There's a lot of madness going on out there. Artists can only be what they are, but the industry only goes with what they…

— Pras Michel

If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide…

— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful,…

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.

— Andrew Jack

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

— Ariel Gore

Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and…

— Anonymous