Art Quote by William Faulkner

Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being satisfied.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

— David Hockney

“If the creative process is so powerful, it would be natural to wonder why many artists have difficulties in their lives. It is because…

— Robert Fritz

It is all too easy as an artist to allow the shape of our career to be dictated to us by others. We can…

— Julia Cameron

For me, artists are the world's pain receptors. That is why they have such a hard time living.

— France Gall

People become artists out of despair.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

It's difficult to really be an artist nowadays. People are just on another page. You have a society that needs you to say something,…

— Mos Def

Because we all just function, the rest of us, just go to work and come home; artists make life bearable. They give perspectives on…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

— Ariel Gore

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom…

— Beverly Pepper

Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I…

— Robert Wilson

Artists have a tremendous purpose in society, which is to continually expose, to continually challenge and to never stop producing. To never stop creating,…

— Andrea Suarez Paz