Art Quote by stella gibbons

“Oh, my dear fellow, if you want to be a gentleman you must give up being an artist. They’ve got nothing to do with…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not…

— Chaim Potok

“Our first job as artists, then, is to venture out, away from what we think we know in search of the new and unexplored.…

— Jeff Goins

“Every artist is born in a place, within a family, and though she may leave those sources far behind, they remain within her.”

— Tori Amos

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The life of an artist is not so romantic as some might suppose.”

— Kyle Muntz

“An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is done them.”

— Marcel Proust

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

“It goes without saying that the artists sympathised not with the actual working classes but with their own idea of the working classes,”

— Theodore Dalrymple

“I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one…

— Criss Jami

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.”

— Oscar Wilde

“A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth…

— Julia Cameron