Art Quote by Thomas Mann

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

“A plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive, at least a little bit…”

— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.”

— Oscar Wilde

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existance”

— Woody Allen

“But I tell you, nothing is pointless, and nothing is meaningless if the artist will face it. And it’s his business to face it.…

— Katherine Ann Porter

“An artist does not create the way he lives, he lives the way he creates.”

— Jean Lescure

“No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little…

— Anonymous

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

“If the creative process is so powerful, it would be natural to wonder why many artists have difficulties in their lives. It is because…

— Robert Fritz

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

— Tom Robbins

“Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives, but a sign of our desire to live in the world fully and honestly.”

— Jan Zwicky