Art Quote by Steven Pressfield

Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done...

— Henri Matisse

“You can be a good painter if you study Cézanne's vision. Whoever dares to copy Van Gogh falls inevitably into the hell of imitators.…

— Zbigniew Herbert

Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of…

— Vincent Van Gogh

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

— William Faulkner

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

— Keith Jarrett

The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

— Irving Stone

the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

— Orhan Pamuk

That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a…

— Joni Mitchell

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.…

— Albert Camus

In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece

— Kai Greene

If you don't trust your own judgment as an artist, as someone who has contributed to a work of art, then why do it?

— David Nutter