9 Best Artist Quotes

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – Basil Hallward

I'm a human and I'm an artist and I'm sensitive about my shit. – Beyonce

The role of the artist is to make the audience care about your obsessions. – Martin Scorsese

The nature of an artist is to be selfish. You have to be, to protect the work. – Martin Scorsese

The role of the artist is to not look away. – Akira Kurosawa

To be an artist means never to look away. – Akira Kurosawa

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing. – Francis Ford Coppola

I am a sinner, and I am going to hell. But I am an artist, so it's all right. – Ingmar Bergman

To be an artist is to be wounded. – Ingmar Bergman