Artist Quote by Steven Cuoco

“No artist wants to stumble, certainly not in front of their audience, but sometimes that's what it takes”

— Joe Satriani

“Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?”

— Anonymous

“Artists are essential.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“To be an artist means a lifetime of being told no, with the occasional yes showing up just to give you enough hope to…

— Jami Attenberg

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Ivan Fernandez

“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The problem is, of course, that art typically requires an audience, which loops us right back to the problem of observing actions and losing…

— Maggie Nelson

It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what they needed, then they…

— Alan Moore

“Well, nothing helps an artist’s career more than a little death and obscurity, I always say.”

— Dan Simmons

“Art and the artist meet in stages, slowly revealing themselves until both are satisfied with what the other has become.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

— Alan Moore