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An artist is his own fault.

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.