Accomplished Quote by Thomas Hardy

“Nothing really at any period of my life was ever of the smallest importance to me compared with Art. But in the case of…

— Oscar Wilde

In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.

— Constantin Brancusi

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think its effortless and easy.

— Charles Fleischer

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy.

— Charles Fleischer

I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like they can…

— Sylvester Stallone

You may dislike the intention enormously but your judgment of the artistic merit of the work must not be based on your view of…

— Edward Albee

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

“You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort”

— Amy Tan

Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience--but when one unmistakably isn't such an…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his personality. He expresses his personality indirectly through concentrating upon a task which…

— T.S. Eliot

“But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination. ”

— Oscar Wilde