Top Artist Quotes & Sayings

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

#Great #Artist #Sees #Art #Cease #Great Things

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

James Whistler

#Vision #Artist #Labor #Art

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Albert Einstein

#Artist #True #Creative #Art #Characterized #Irresistible

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

John F. Kennedy

#Society #Artist #Culture #Art #Vision #Roots #Nourish

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

#Earth #Sky #Artist #Art #Scrap #Shapes

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

Henry Ward Beecher

#Nature #Artist #Soul #Art #Brush #Dip #Paints #Dips

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Leo Tolstoy

#Artist #Feeling #Handicraft #Art #Experienced #Transmission

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Abraham Lincoln

#Art #Greatest #Artist #Quote Of The Day #Michael #Conceivable

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Andy Warhol

#Artist #Somebody #Produces #Art

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

#Adventure #Soul #Artist #Art #Expression

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

#God #Artist #Less #Art

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Albert Einstein

#Artist #Draw #Freely #Art #Imagination

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Paul Valery

#Work #Artist #Abandon #Art #Finishes

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

Langston Hughes

#Free #Artist #Afraid #Art #Certainly

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

#Wisdom #Imagination #Look #Henry David Thoreau #Attitude #Vision #Beautiful #Artist #Art #Looks #Matter #What Matters #What You See

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Michael Palin

#Love #Art #Food #Travel #Artist #Cook #Great Love

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

George Sand

#Light #Heart #Artist #Art

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Willa Cather

#Great #Stupid #Artist #Truth #Art #Truthful

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

Eugene Delacroix

#Perfection #Artist #Achieves #Art

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

Jackson Pollock

#Good #Artist #Painting #Art #Discovery #Self Discovery #Paints