Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
Paul Cezanne

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Paul Cezanne

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.
Pharrell Williams

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.
Maya Lin

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.
Lucian Freud

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.
Erykah Badu

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.
Mos Def

With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
Norman Mailer

It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.
Mos Def

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
Edward Hopper

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
Elia Kazan

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.
Alan Bean

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
Ziggy Marley

I've always been a fine artist.
Joey Skaggs

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
Cyril Connolly

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery

Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
Elia Kazan

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.
Marisa Tomei