Artist Quotes

Every artist was first an amateur.

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

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

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

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

The artist in me cries out for design.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

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

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

The Greek grasped the present moment, and was the artist; the Jew worshipped the timeless spirit, and was the prophet.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

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

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

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.