Art Quote by William Faulkner

So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.…

— William Faulkner

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

— Frances Stark

It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

— Edgar Degas

It is true that the environment does have an influence but what has much greater effect on the artist is love or hatred.He uses…

— Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.

— Jack White

The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it,…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must…

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose…

— Sue Halpern

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living…

— Carl Andre

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

— Arthur C. Clarke

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Art is a luxury but also a necessity.

— Edwidge Danticat