Ambition Quote by Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.”

— Annette Messager

“No true artist is possible without sorrow and suffering and renunciation.”

— Jessie Fothergill

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

— Oscar Wilde

“Every artist takes their final work to the grave.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The soul of an artist is a tortured one, forever capturing their version of reality.”

— Belinda Taylor

“The work of the artist is to lift up people's hearts and help them endure.”

— William Faulkner

“To achieve works of meaning, a writer (or any artist) must cut into himself and leave his soul on the canvas, exposed for anyone…

— Mardra Sikora

“You are an artist; your life is your masterpiece.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The first creation of every artist is getting carved from the best moments of his life!!”

— Nelson Jack

“. . . No matter how screwed up the artist might be, there's still the chance that they can produce art that people like…

— Charles Martin

“True artists know how to cut their subjects open and bleed them onto the canvas.”

— Chelsea Sedoti

“If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to take whatever…

— Dani Shapiro