Artist Quotes

An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical ...

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Oh say can you see Alma. The darlingof Them. All her friends were artists.They alone have memories. ...

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

Just as little as a reader today reads all of the individual words (let alone syllables) on a page—r...

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under ...

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, lik...

Caricature is rough truth.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

Art is a delayed echo.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Art upsets science reassures.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be consci...

Art is a kind of illness.

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways...

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it i...

Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois so that you may be violent and original in you...

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath...

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility the generalities that ar...

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's...

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced t...

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into i...

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used desc...

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before ...

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, priso...

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impressi...

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of...

We must grant the artist his subject his idea his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he mak...

He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would...

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, o...

I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restles...

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had i...

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

No man is equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where th...

I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and diffic...

The light of artistic creation is also blinding.The artist can’t see the suffering he causesto those...

In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares...

I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzle...

Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it ...

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrati...

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not a...

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

The artist like the God of the creation remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork ...

The mystery of esthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the god of ...

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question...

To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slo...

I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who ...

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what...

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge ...

I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art...

Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist a...

I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East...

You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no ...

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

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

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or...

A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue...

Theatre takes place all the time wherever one is and art simply facilitates persuading one this is t...

When power leads man toward arrogance poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the...

The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. I...

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to t...

You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeo...

Fine art is that in which the hand the head and the heart of man go together.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are...

My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist ...

Art gropes it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods listening to itself and to everything around ...

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.

One of the worst things that can happen to an artist is to perceive himself as the owner of his art,...

History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It...

Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art...

I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's no...

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been ac...

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of ...

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing in...