Great Artists Quotes

“Ambition is like a plague that can only be cured by success.”
― Terrance Robinson- Artist Educator Scholar Entrepreneur

“The way to be a great artist is to make your soul attractive to the universe! The aftermath is easy, the universe settles in your soul and begins to flow from you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Sadie had willed herself to be great: art doesn't typically get made by happy people.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Constant labour is the law of art as well as the law of life, for art is the creative activity of the mind. And so great artists, true poets, do not wait for either commissions or clients; they create today, tomorrow, ceaselessly.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Cousin Bette

“The grandeur of [great artists] works was an argument with them, not to stop short, but to proceed. They could have no higher excitement or satisfaction than in the exercise of their art and endless generation of truth and beauty. Success prompts to exertion; and habit facilitates success.”
― William Hazlitt, The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things

“An artist who doesn't spend a lot of time with himself can never be a great artist!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan