That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
Ernest Hemingway

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
Langston Hughes

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
Jane Austen

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
William Blake

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
William Blake

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
Patrick Swayze

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Rainer Maria Rilke

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
Vincent Van Gogh

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
Janis Joplin

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
Orson Welles

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Virginia Woolf