Art Quote by T. S. Eliot

“The struggle of the artist against the art-ideology, against the creative impulse and even against his own work also shows itself in his attitude…

— Otto Rank

Artists have a tremendous purpose in society, which is to continually expose, to continually challenge and to never stop producing. To never stop creating,…

— Andrea Suarez Paz

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

— Oscar Wilde

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

— Richard Avedon

It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can…

— Julia Cameron

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

— Edward Hopper

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.

— Julia Cameron

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom…

— Beverly Pepper

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

— Robin G. Collingwood

When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.

— Raekwon

The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and…

— Carl Jung

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