Air Quote by Walker Percy

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in…

— John Berryman

Perhaps the male has become an artist in the creation of many hidden ways of killing himself.

— Herb Goldberg

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually…

— Anonymous

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken…

— Don DeLillo

The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work…

— Anonymous

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

— Marianne Moore

Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him…

— Johannes Brahms

The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.

— Kurt Vonnegut

It is one thing for an artist to experiment on a canvas, but it's entirely different to experiment on a living creature.

— Ellen Ullman

The artist is the world's scapegoat.

— Jacob Epstein

An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected.

— Tennessee Williams