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."
[ Modernism's Patriarch ( Time Magazine , June 10, 1996)]”
― Robert Hughes
[ Modernism's Patriarch ( Time Magazine , June 10, 1996)]”
― Robert Hughes
Depression Quotes (5285 quotes)
Alex Dobrenko added
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
sari and added
You can be the greatest artist in the world, but if the eyes that matter aren’t on your work, and if the people who count don’t speak up for you, you hardly exist beyond your own local circle.