Art Quote by V. S. Pritchett

It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

— Edgar Degas

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

— Gertrude Stein

The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is from the…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Only a sad man can be a good artist.

— IndraneeL

The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much…

— Charles Baudelaire

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who…

— Virginia Woolf

Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I think the popular concept of the artist is a person who has this great passion and enthusiasm and super emotion. He just throws…

— Richard Estes

It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society…

— Richard Hofstadter

“In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older,…

— Gustave Flaubert

“He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and…

— Henry James

It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for himself, or…

— Edgar Degas