Art Quote by Tom Bissell

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

— Ivan Fernandez

“It is the intriguing job of genre scholars to figure out what lies behind what everyone already knows.”

— Amy J. Devitt

“Our first job as artists, then, is to venture out, away from what we think we know in search of the new and unexplored.…

— Jeff Goins

“True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

“Look, I don't see why bad artists - I mean artists who are obviously incompetent... - why they should be presented hypocritically as good…

— Anthony Burgess

“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

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

— Oscar Wilde

“I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they…

— Laird Barron

“No artist wants to stumble, certainly not in front of their audience, but sometimes that's what it takes”

— Joe Satriani

“What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, their own way of fracturing reality,…

— David Foster Wallace

When the motives of artists are profound, when they are at their work as a result of deep consideration, when they believe in the…

— Robert Henri

“Artists, on the other hand, talk to determine what works, what does not, and why. Their focus is more on the micro; it moves…

— David Salle