Art Quote by Tennessee Williams

An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He…

— Tennessee Williams

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

— Anish Kapoor

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter…

— James Broughton

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

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

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

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

— David Hockney

The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that…

— Peter Schjeldahl

An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art.

— Peter Frampton

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

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

— Karl Kraus