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 must be ruthlessly selfish.

— W. Eugene Smith

It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals.

— Pablo Picasso

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

— Heinrich Böll

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

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

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

— Clara Schumann

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 is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme…

— Carl Jung

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the…

— Diego Rivera

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

— Peter Porter

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and…

— Marvin Gaye