Art Quote by Steven Pressfield

“The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.”

— Steven Pressfield

“The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell whether he knows it or not.”

— Steven Pressfield

The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it,…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Let the artist have just enough to eat, and the tools of this trade: ask nothing of him. Materially make the life of the…

— Clive Bell

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive…

— Patti Smith

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and…

— Freya Stark

An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.

— W. Eugene Smith

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.

— William Faulkner

“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

“A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is…

— Jorge Luis Borges

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

— Francis Bacon