Art Quote by Stephen King

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He…

— William Faulkner

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

— Oscar Wilde

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

— Heinrich Böll

“The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“There is always a mysterious conflict in every artist; if life treats him roughly he longs for peace and calm, but if he comes…

— Stefan Zweig

“Love and Death? What has great music or poetry ever been about, but those twin forces that undo a man?”

— Anonymous

“. . . No matter how screwed up the artist might be, there's still the chance that they can produce art that people like…

— Charles Martin

“No true artist is possible without sorrow and suffering and renunciation.”

— Jessie Fothergill

“Every artist thus keeps within himself a single source which nourishes during his lifetime what he is and what he says.”

— Albert Camus

“Every artist takes their final work to the grave.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

— Leo Tolstoy

“And mostly I believe the artists further the systematic murder of the real”

— Dennis Lee