2163 Artist Quotes for You to Enjoy

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. Auguste Rodin

Art Fire Before Own Creation Must Born Consumed He Make Ready His Artist Spark Create

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. Charles Dudley Warner

Great Picture Great Artist Small Artist Canvas Paint

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. Ernest Hemingway

Depression Good Reward Mood Terrible Known Any Artist Whether

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul. Wassily Kandinsky

Soul Eyes Key Cause Harmonies Keyboard Strings Touching Color Piano Another Hand Artist Vibrations Many Plays

The great artist is a slave to his ideals. Christian Nestell Bovee

Great Great Artist Ideals His Artist Slave

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life? Aldous Huxley

Life Art Good Happy Would Horrible He Perhaps Protest Artist Want After Anything Against Suffer Ever

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

Art People Somebody Artist Produces Who Things Need

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. Auguste Rodin

Nature Word Every Flower Bending Harmoniously Carry Through Stems Towards Him Graceful Blossoms Confidant Artist Which Nuances Flowers Cordial

Nicki Minaj is a very strong woman who knows exactly what she wants. As an artist, I understand her, and I could see how she could be misunderstood by a lot of people, but she is really passionate about her art, and that's something I really admire about her. Bebe Rexha

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The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist. Kendrick Lamar

It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live. Nina Simone

Reflect Duty Live Times Artist Which

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. Jean Cocteau

Man Living Must Artist

I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries. David Bowie

As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft. Justin Bieber

Entertainer More Perfect Get Craft Artist Want Grow Basically

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul. Kate Chopin

Art Soul Own Possess Gifts Must Absolute Moreover Courageous Been Effort Artist Which Succeed Acquired Much Many

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. Steven Seagal

Great Poet Warrior Scholar Also Any Artist

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood. Chuck Palahniuk

Communicate Feelings Living Too Others Those Unaware Because Makes Understood Any Artist Lack Afraid Skills Express Expressing

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