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QUOTES including the word: "artist"

Titian:
  • A leading artist of the Italian Renaissance.

    • Maria Kallas:
  • You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

    • Pablo Picasso:
  • Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

    • Wassily Kandinsky:
  • The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

    • Emile Zola:
  • If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.

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

    • Charles Aznavour:
  • If the youth can't make a living through creative work, they will do something else and the artistic world will be dealt a blow.

    • Baudelaire:
  • An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

    • Jackson Pollock:
  • The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. Jackson Pollock

    • Somerset Maugham:
  • Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

    • Puccini:
  • Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

    • Gustave Courbet:
  • The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found, it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

    • Manos Xatzidakis:
  • They say that artists are either communists or homosexuals. Anyway, I am not a communist…

    • Salvador Dali:
  • A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

    • Pablo Picasso:
  • Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

    • Anton Chekhov:
  • The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

    • Renoir:
  • The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion; it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.”

    • Upton Sinclair:
  • All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

    • Toulouse:
  • In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves..

    • Rolland:
  • It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

    • Dylan Thomas:
  • There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

    • van Gogh,Vincent:
  • “There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

    • Renoir:
  • “If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.”

    • Flaubert:
  • Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

    • Gustave Courbet:
  • The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

    • Renoir:
  • “I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable…. But I don’t seem to have a single real friend!”

    • Emile Zola:
  • There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

    • Napoleon:
  • 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.

    • Gauguin:
  • The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

    • Gabriela Mistral:
  • What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people,

    • Jackson Pollock:
  • When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

    • Emile Zola:
  • The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

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

    • Igor Stravinsky:
  • What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

    • John Steinbeck:
  • 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.

    • W. Burroughs:
  • Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

    • 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.