The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen…

The painter strives and competes with nature.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create…

— Colin Blakemore

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

— Salvador Dali

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.

— Jean Cocteau

“True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.

— Anna Pavlova

“True artists know how to cut their subjects open and bleed them onto the canvas.”

— Chelsea Sedoti

Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the…

— Tom Peters

Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.

— Robert Schumann

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

— Odilon Redon

If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience,…

— Ali Akbar Khan

“I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what my lyrics might mean, and I'm like, "You go! I never…

— Serj Tankian

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

— Yoko Ono

I see a lot of true artists... then you see them on the cover of Maxim. That's the lowest of low to me. I…

— Cheyenne Kimball

One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal…

— Fernando Bujones