Artist Quotes

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. Robert Schumann

Art Darkness Light Men Duty Hearts Send Artist

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. Samuel Beckett

Find Mess Task Artist Form Now

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

Work Abandon Finishes Never He Merely His Artist Really

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar. Charles Bukowski

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.' Edgar Allan Poe

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

Alone Loneliness Needs He Always Artist

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves. Langston Hughes

People Beauty Mission Perhaps Within Artist Themselves Interpret

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

Own Imagination Monster Must Bow His Artist

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. Tom Wolfe

Life Man Beauty Hungry Miser Glory Artist Eternity Then Slave

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

Art I Am Imagination Enough Draw Freely Am Artist

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

Life You People World Otherwise See More Know Make Understand How Role Artist Them Themselves Why Consciousness Raise

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Hans Hofmann

Work Art Emotions World Itself Reflecting Artist Senses

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. Hans Hofmann

Art Personality Every Temperament Artist Rooted Expression Fundamentally

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen. Jackson Pollock

Game Man Construction Big Building Earth Pen Say Penn Some Brush West Iron Artist Whether Mean Ore Plains Creating Molding Shovel Choose Who Things

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist. William Blake

Thoughts Man Mind Never His Artist Heaven Who

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself. Paul Cezanne

Art Personality Seductive About Most Himself Artist Thing

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. Oscar Wilde

Critic Educate Artist Public

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story. Don Miguel Ruiz

Art Creation Every Our Main Artist Human Story

You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play. Erik Erikson

You Creativity Problems Word Free Whatever Young Enormous Says See Seeing Rises He Wrong Also Without How Surface His Close Child Artist Children Young Children Them Paint Play Things

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. Henri Matisse

Success Style Prisoner Reputation Must Never Himself Artist Etc Should

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind. Henry Ossawa Tanner

You Mind Assure Would Would-Be Had Spot Artist Decided Ordinary

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing. Herbert Read

Wind Bitter Knows Blowing Artist Sensitive

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. R. Buckminster Fuller

Mechanic Synthesis Evolutionary Objective Emerging Inventor Economist Artist Strategist Designer

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge. Albert Camus

The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects - things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language - either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors. Aristotle

Words Language Thought Rare Three Poet Other Imitate Ought Must Objects Vehicle Like Terms Said Metaphors Were Current Any Artist May Being Either Painter Expression Things Necessity

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