Art Quote by William Faulkner

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He…

— William Faulkner

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

— Joseph Conrad

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

— Patti Smith

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

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

— Andy Warhol

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

— Robin Gibb

The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that…

— Peter Schjeldahl

...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to…

— Peter Block

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive…

— Patti Smith

Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.

— Steven Pressfield

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed…

— Anonymous

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his…

— William Morris Hunt