Artist Quotes

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein

Art, True, Creative

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

Enough, Draw, Freely

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln

Art, Greatest, Person

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso

Problem, Child, Once

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

Great, Cease, Sees

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John Steinbeck

Great, Teacher, Mind

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde

Feeling, Portrait, Sitter

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
John Lennon

Society, Try, Leader

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
James Whistler

Vision, Labor, Paid

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy

Art, Society, Him

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

Public, Critic, Educate

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso

Children, Problem, Once

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

Alone, Loneliness, Needs

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.
Eminem

Mistakes, Person, Learn

I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.
Marilyn Monroe

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.
Marilyn Monroe

Integrity, Kinds, Actress

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

Nature, Art, Through

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Home, Except, Europe

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Law, Others

The artist in me cries out for design.
Robert Frost

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher

Nature, Soul, Pictures

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski

Simple, Hard, Says

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

Somebody, Produces

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Abraham Maslow

Music, Peace, Write

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

Good, Depression, Whether

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.
Pablo Picasso

Place, Earth, Emotions

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Ernest Hemingway

Art, Death, Honor

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

Success, Cannot, Fail

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

God, Real, Trying

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