After Quote by Van Cliburn

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

— Van Cliburn

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

— Orson Welles

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

— John Cassavetes

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a…

— Francis Bacon

Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.

— John Baldessari

When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.

— Nate Parker

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

— Orson Welles

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

Art in its execution and direction is dependent on the time in which it lives, and artists are creatures of their epoch. The highest…

— Richard Huelsenbeck

A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an…

— Christian Keiber