Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition. Votes: 0
Edward AbbeyAn artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possesse Votes: 0
Charlotte ErikssonEvery art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. Votes: 0
Hans HofmannNo artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality. Votes: 0
T. S. EliotArt is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful Votes: 0
Shirin NeshatThe true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature. Votes: 0
George InnessAn artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art Votes: 0
Lee SimonsonArt is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. Votes: 0
Leo TolstoyAn artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. Votes: 0
Jean CocteauCreation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art. Votes: 0
Henri MatisseArt solves nothing, either for the artist himself or for those who receive his art. Votes: 0
Clement GreenbergThe artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos? Votes: 0
Romare BeardenAn artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love. Votes: 0
Raymond ChandlerGood art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better. Votes: 0
Walter Darby BannardEvery human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. Votes: 0
Miguel Angel RuizAny authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. Votes: 0
Rebecca WestAn artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty Votes: 0
Andrei TarkovskyAs an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists. Votes: 0
Jeff KoonsArt is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering. Votes: 0
Franz KafkaThe only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics Votes: 0
Jonathan AlterThe first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultA small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything. Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art. Votes: 0
Samuel R. DelanyI'm a text artist. It's an unsung art form because it's so ahead of its time. Votes: 0
Natasha LyonneArt and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do. Votes: 0
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelThe highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnYou don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art. Votes: 0
Seth GodinArt is the reflection of pure emotion and mind, the nature of sensation. An artist illustrates that. Votes: 0
Unarine RamaruArt is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Votes: 0
Andre GideFirst be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first. Votes: 0
Francisco GoyaI know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art, Votes: 0
James AgeeArt is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Votes: 0
Andre GideMusic is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism. Votes: 0
YanniIf living Life is an art, then Only You can be the artist to make it colorful. Votes: 0
Sagar GosaviAll art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist. Votes: 0
Paul KleeArt Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language. Votes: 0
Igor BabailovIt's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist. Votes: 0
Vivek ShrayaNobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it. Votes: 0
Pansy Schneider-HorstMake no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist. Votes: 0
Lon Milo DuQuetteA work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world. Votes: 0
Hans HofmannI'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man. Votes: 0
George RickeyIn art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist. Votes: 0
Bruce NaumanArt and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both. Votes: 0
Eric MaiselI set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history. Votes: 0
Judy ChicagoThe artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeSome of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist. Votes: 0
Larry WallI set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history Votes: 0
Judy ChicagoI've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist. Votes: 0
Roger DaltreyEvery human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story. Votes: 0
Miguel Angel RuizIf I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it. Votes: 0
MatisyahuEvery human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story. Votes: 0
Don Miguel RuizI love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art. Votes: 0
Chuck ClosePolitics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist. Votes: 0
Youssou N'DourI think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist. Votes: 0
Craig FergusonArt is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine. Votes: 0
Joseph PlaskettAn artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art. Votes: 0
Ad ReinhardtThis is a fact. If you don't make art people like, you will never earn a living as an artist. Votes: 0
Jack WhiteArt is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeLife is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life. Votes: 0
John Edgar ParkI was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art. Votes: 0
Jeff KoonsA true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it. Votes: 0
St. LuciaI am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art. Votes: 0
Rhys IfansA man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there. Votes: 0
Carl AndreIf I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art. Votes: 0
Bruce NaumanWhen I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. Votes: 0
Anselm KieferArt does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real. Votes: 0
Burton RaffelTo be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be. Votes: 0
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