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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
Jay-Z

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

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

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

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