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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso

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 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

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The artist in me cries out for design.
Robert Frost

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

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

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