Artist Quotes

Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once he grows up. (Pablo Picasso)
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world. View quote
Federico Fellini
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. View quote
Émile Zola
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud! View quote
Émile Zola
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there. View quote
Maria Callas
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. (Norman Mailer)
The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone. View quote
James Baldwin
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews. View quote
William Faulkner
Every artist was first an amateur. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time. View quote
Martha Graham
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. View quote
Émile Zola
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythms, by effort that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. View quote
Henri Matisse
A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints. View quote
Pablo Picasso
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. View quote
Pablo Picasso
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. (Pablo Picasso)
An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. View quote
Charles Bukowski
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. View quote
Walt Whitman
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. View quote
Saul Bellow