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Fran?ois Delsarte

The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or

M. C. (Maurits Cornelis) Escher

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Ernesto "Che" Guevara

In my prints I try to show that we live in a beautiful and orderly world and not in a chaos without norms, as we sometimes seem to. My subjects are also often playful. I cannot help mocking all our unwavering certainties. It is, for example, great fun del

Michelangelo Buonarroti

The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are s

Pablo Picasso

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

Emile Zola

At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, an image of unutterable conviction, the reason why the artist works and lives and has his being--the reward he seeks--the only reward he really cares about, without which there is nothing. It is to snare the

Carl Sagan

also cited in Laurie Lisle, Portrait of an Artist (1986)

Pablo Picasso

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Eric Pio

You are not an artist,an artist creates. You do not write your own songs. End of debate.

Andr Gide

Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Novalis

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Eric Pio

A true artist doesn't change with the times. A true artist is already way ahead of the times.

Henry Ellis

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Elbert Hubbard

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

Unknown

If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so

Franois Auguste Ren Rodin

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.

Charles Horton Cooley

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

Nero Claudius Caesar

What an artist the world is losing in me

Rene Angelil

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

Edgard Varese

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

Eugene Delacroix

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Paul Valery

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

Jacob Getlar Smith

The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.

Charles Horton Cooley

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

W. Edward Brown

The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life.

David Hockney

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Auguste Rodin

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

Fran?ois Delsarte

The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.

Carl Sagan

also cited in Laurie Lisle, Portrait of an Artist (1986)

T. S. Eliot

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

Albert Einstein

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

SHAKS.: _Pericles,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.

In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed, To make some good, but others to exceed.

Isak Dineson

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Robert Schumann

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

Abraham Maslow

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

Kahlil Gibran

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Andy Warhol

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Andrew Schneider

There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.

Pablo Picasso

The artist is a receptacle for the 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

The artist is a recepticle for the 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.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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

Walter Paepcke

???The artist and the businessman should cultivate every opportunity to teach and supplement one another, to cooperate with one another, just as the nations of the world must do. Only in such a fusion of talents, abilities, and philosophies can there be eve

Leonard Bernstein

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Alexander Calder

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Johann von Goethe

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Radiquet

A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality.

Cyril Connolly

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.

Edward Steichen

Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Henri Matisse

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

Emile Zola

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Rob Cella

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tole

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the se

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

Every artist was first an amateur.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

An artist does not fake reality--he *stylizes* it.

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

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

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

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

God is really only another artist, he made the elephat, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso.

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

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...

The neurotic and the artist - since both live out the unconscious of the race - reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Teaching is as sacred as priesthood. If one has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and artist, he must not teach.

The out-of-work actor wears out more than shoe leather. The very sensibilities that make him an artist are shattered by the disregard he is shown as a human being.

"A government supported artist is an incompetent whore." - Heinlein

"Graphic Artist seeks Boss with vision impairment."

"When it comes to ruining a painting, he's an artist." Samuel Goldwyn

"They're using the term `artist' very loosely." -- Crow T. Robot

"Artist seeks Boss with vision impairment."

"Bother," said Pooh, as the artist licked his pencil

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

"I'm an artist! I have values!" -- Crow T. Robot

"Oh no. Not another martial artist." -- Swift Swallow.

"Ain't no artist, I'm a businessman, no ideas of my own" - J. Biafra

"I am an artist you philistine, not a babe!" - Stonecutter

"An artist must convince others o' de truth o' his lies."

"The blacksmith and the artist reflect it in their art." -Rush

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

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.