The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
Vincent Van Gogh

The artist in me cries out for design.
Robert Frost

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

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
Henry Miller

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
Henry Miller

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

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

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
Jane Austen

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
Taylor Swift

I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.
Taylor Swift

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
William Blake

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
William Blake

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
Golda Meir

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. Salinger

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
J. D. Salinger