Quotes About Artist

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. ~Charles Horton Cooley


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


The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. ~Henry Miller


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. ~Andy Warhol


Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton


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


It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. ~Loren Eiseley


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


The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. ~André Malraux


An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it. ~Paul Valéry


Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. ~Willa Cather


A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. ~Oscar Wilde

An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. ~Jean Cocteau


The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is. ~Alfred Tonnelle

For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one. ~William McElcheran

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

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid. ~Jules Feiffer