Art Quote by Zen Cho

“People view celebrities from a place of envy and inferiority. Instead of being personally inspired by their great artistry they see them in a…

— Willa Shalit

“Any artist must simultaneously be nigh cripplingly insecure and massively egotistical.”

— Jason Erik Lundberg

“There is no art in celebrity.”

— Jack Freestone

“I understand that comes with the territory, and that celebrities have a contract with the public: they get to be the target of jealousy…

— Mara Wilson

“An artist does not have to think about what he is doing.”

— Irving Stone

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who…

— Virginia Woolf

“He's been living on the fringes of art for so many years, talking and talking about it, that he's come to expect all the…

— Richard Yates

“He had no illusion that this was bittersweet or somehow necessary to make art. It just burned. Anyone who felt this would take their…

— Arthur Phillips

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.”

— Oscar Wilde

“an honest being who does not behave absurdly has no chance at all of becoming famous, or even of being noticed, however kind and…

— G.I. Gurdjieff

When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.

— Jimmy Smits