artist quotes

• The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. (George Sand) [artist/light/human]
• God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things. (Pablo Picasso) [god/artist/literary style]
• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. (Henry Ward Beecher) [artist/nature]
• No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [artist]
• I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged. (Maria Callas) [angel/artist]
• 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. (Maria Callas) [artist/artist/artist]
• The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone. (James Baldwin) [artist/state/men/state]
• No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [artist]
• To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. (Arnold Bennett) [artist/insight/matter/experience]
• 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 I) [love/power/artist/love]
• In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important. (Luis Bunuel) [society/artist/responsibility/painter]
• Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. (Willa Cather) [growth/more/artist/artist]
• The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture. (Raymond Chandler) [artist/artist/ego]
• Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love. (Raymond Chandler) [/life/artist/art]
• The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [artist/moment]
• The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [artist/wonder]
• An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. (Joseph Conrad) [artist/action/personality/situation]
• All in all, 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. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists. (Marcel Duchamp) [artist/more/posterity/verdict]
• The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. (Max Eastman) [artist/consciousness]
• Every artist writes his own autobiography. (Havelock Ellis) [artist]
• The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [artist/inspiration/virtue/prayer]
• The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [artist]
• Every artist was first an amateur. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [artist]
• A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. ( Laozi) [artist]
• A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. ( Laozi) [artist]
• When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed. (Margaret Mead) [human/more/artist/mystic]
• The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal. (Henry Miller) [thinker/fool/artist]
• All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself -- civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist. It is the creative nature of man which has refused to let him lapse back into that unconscious unity with life which characterizes the animal world from which he made his escape. (Henry Miller) [artist/nature/unity/life]
• An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. (Henry Miller) [artist/artist/artist/needs]
• The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. (Henry Miller) [artist/artist/universe/experience]
• An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [artist/housing/europe]

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