The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
— Robert Hughes, 1996
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. — Robert Hughes, 1996
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. – Robert Hughes
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."
[ Modernism's Patriarch ( Time Magazine , June 10, 1996)]”
― Robert Hughes
[ Modernism's Patriarch ( Time Magazine , June 10, 1996)]”
― Robert Hughes
Depression Quotes (5285 quotes)
The art critic Robert Hughes once said, ‘The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.’
T. L. Uglow • A Curiosity of Doubts: Penguin Special
Great thinkers don’t harbor doubts because they’re impostors. They maintain doubts because they know we’re all partially blind and they’re committed to improving their sight.
Adam Grant • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
“The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality.”
Austin Kleon • Keep Going
All great artists are, said Arnold, imbued with ‘the aspiration to leave the world better and happier than they find it’.
Alain de Botton • Status Anxiety (NON-FICTION)
Art and the artist both suffer most when the artist gets too heavy, too focused on results.
Austin Kleon • Keep Going: a book by Austin Kleon
You don’t need to believe in yourself to be an artist, you just need to believe in your audience. To believe that it is important to communicate with them. Make sure that if your goal is to build an audience that you have some message to say. Otherwise it just gets hopeless. Celebrity is the cost you pay to deliver your message, celebrity is to be ... See more