Art Quote by William H. Gass

“If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to take whatever…

— Dani Shapiro

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

“And underneath everything, whatever phase the world has gone into, there must be artists, there must be musicians, there must be writers. They are…

— Jillian Sullivan

“What can be sadder than a discouraged artist dying not from his own commonplace maladies, but from the cancer of oblivion?”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Every artist takes their final work to the grave.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“. . . No matter how screwed up the artist might be, there's still the chance that they can produce art that people like…

— Charles Martin

“Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I…

— Don DeLillo

“We are all artists; painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“No true artist is possible without sorrow and suffering and renunciation.”

— Jessie Fothergill

“A plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive, at least a little bit…”

— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

“Every artist thus keeps within himself a single source which nourishes during his lifetime what he is and what he says.”

— Albert Camus

“In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the…

— Madeleine L'Engle