Apology Quote by William Gaddis

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?

— William Gaddis

“What is it they want from a man that they didn't get from his work? What do they expect? What is there left of…

— William Gaddis

An artist is his own fault.

— John O'Hara

What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when…

— William Gaddis

The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work…

— Anonymous

“Any artist who fails to engage with society and the vulnerability of the individual in a cruel existence should not style him-or herself an…

— Lena Andersson

An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.

— W. Eugene Smith

“No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.”

— Oscar Wilde

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

— Robert Breault

The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.

— Eric Maisel

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

— Ira Sachs

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When…

— Albert Camus