Affected Quote by Tennessee Williams

An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected.

— Tennessee Williams

I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often…

— W. H. Auden

“An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist

— Anish Kapoor

I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly…

— Madeleine L'Engle

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't…

— Paula McLain

If I create with my heart almost all my intentions remain. If it is with the head - almost nothing. An artist must not…

— Marc Chagall

I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible…

— Keith Haring

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the…

— J. G. Holland

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

— Robert Henri

The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.

— Eric Maisel