All Quotes

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
‐‐ Pablo Picasso

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
‐‐ Saul Steinberg

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
‐‐ Albrecht Durer

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
‐‐ John Berryman

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.
‐‐ Georg Baselitz

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
‐‐ Emile Zola

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.
‐‐ Sol LeWitt

The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
‐‐ Carlisle Floyd

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
‐‐ Auguste Rodin

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
‐‐ Federico Fellini

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
‐‐ James Joyce

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
‐‐ Arthur Erickson

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
‐‐ Paul Cezanne

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
‐‐ Richard Wright

The artist must continue to look for a new reference. Every day, every performance, every take.
‐‐ Bruce Glover

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
‐‐ Auguste Rodin

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.
‐‐ Emil Nolde

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.
‐‐ John Maeda

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
‐‐ Agnes de Mille

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
‐‐ Aasif Mandvi

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
‐‐ Cyril Connolly

The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined.
‐‐ George Saunders

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
‐‐ Robert Rauschenberg

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.
‐‐ Amiri Baraka

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
‐‐ Paul Strand

The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.
‐‐ Piet Mondrian

The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn't have, 'I love Frank' on it, it had, 'I love AC/DC', 'Guns N Roses', 'Pearl Jam'. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.
‐‐ Michael Buble

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

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
‐‐ Eugene Delacroix

The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.
‐‐ Jacob Epstein

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
‐‐ Max Nordau

The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.
‐‐ Oscar Niemeyer

The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it ruined it? I would say no. It is what it is. I say better that than an urban war zone.
‐‐ Julian Casablancas

The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
‐‐ Carlos Slim

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.
‐‐ Buffy Sainte-Marie

The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a vey enlightening place to be as a kid because of all the music and dancing, and my dad played banjo; my sisters played piano and sang.
‐‐ Dave Davies

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious.
‐‐ Giles Gilbert Scott

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.
‐‐ Christina Aguilera

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.
‐‐ Conway Twitty

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.
‐‐ Brian Eno

The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process.
‐‐ Eddy Grant

The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.
‐‐ Jill Scott

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
‐‐ Jonathan Lethem

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.
‐‐ Jim Leach

The arts are a celebration of life.
‐‐ Michael Douglas

The arts are a major life nourishment.
‐‐ Kiran Ahluwalia

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
‐‐ Hendrik Willem Van Loon