Artist Quotes - Page 3

• We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

  Albert Einstein

  Dance, Dream, Art

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• 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.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspiring, Flower, Creating Art

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  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.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Creativity, Fire

  Southwestern Art Vol. 6, p. 20, 1977.

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• Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

  Edgar Degas

  Beauty, Dance, Art

  "The shop-talk of Edgar Degas".

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• Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Quality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.223

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• An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

  James Whistler

  Tattoo, Art, Creativity

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• The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

  Willa Cather

  Life, Beautiful, Truth

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.305, Courier Corporation

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• I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Education, Dream

  "Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity". Book by Jan Phillips, 1997.

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• The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

  Robert Henri

  Inspiring, Art, Creativity

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.69

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• Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Creativity, Drawing

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• An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Simple, People

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• A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, World, Emotion

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.59, MIT Press

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• I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Emotional, Feelings

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.66, Univ of California Press

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• Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

  Michelangelo

  Life, Success, Leadership

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• The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

  Oscar Wilde

  Criticism, Critics, Educate

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.176, Wordsworth Editions

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• The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

  Norman Rockwell

  Life, Moving On, Travel

  "A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography". Book by Donald Walton (p. 251), 1978.

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• The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an artist. That means he cannot permit himself to become sentimental or something like that. He must know what he is doing

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Children, Mean

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• The big artist .. . keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools.

  Thomas Eakins

  Art, Eye, Tools

  "Thomas Eakins: artist of Philadelphia".

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• 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

  Art, Opposites, Understanding

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.193, New Directions Publishing

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• Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

  Ned Rorem

  Giving, Definitions, Innocent

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir”, p.210, Open Road Media

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• Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

  James Huneker

  Art, Children, Scratches

  James Huneker (2015). “Chopin”, p.13, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Inspiring, Art, Men

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• An artist must be a reactionary

  Evelyn Waugh

  Reactionaries

  Evelyn Waugh (2012). “Decline and Fall”, p.29, Penguin UK

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• Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so.

  Henri Matisse

  Hatred, Soul, Useless

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