What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of…

“Although a man be not a painter, he may have just opinions of the forms of men.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Every man is a painter and the sculptor of his own life.

— Pacifiersucker

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

— Saint John Chrysostom

It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be enlarged for…

— J. E. H. MacDonald

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life...

— Robert Henri

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities,…

— Jacques Barzun

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

— Auguste Rodin

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

— Guillaume Apollinaire

The power of painter or poet to describe what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but…

— John Ruskin

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

— George Eliot

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

— Albert Einstein

Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work…

— Howard Nemerov

The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.'…

— Allan Kaprow