Art Quote by Tristan Gooley

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

— Ivan Fernandez

“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not…

— Chaim Potok

“Some artists are normal people who just happen to make things because we can't figure out how in the hell to communicate with people.”

— Scott Nicholson

“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

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Oscar Wilde

“After all, the world population of artists has exploded, almost no one is not an artist now; in turning our attention inward, so have…

— Nicole Krauss

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

— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

“The duty of the artist lies in keeping alive a sense of wonder in the world.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“And underneath everything, whatever phase the world has gone into, there must be artists, there must be musicians, there must be writers. They are…

— Jillian Sullivan

“An artist's role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.”

— James Baldwin

“I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this—such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice.”

— Tessa Emily Hall