In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece

Now keep in mind that I'm an artist and I'm sensitive about my sh*t

— Erykah Badu

I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what…

— Agnes Martin

Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must…

— Virginia Woolf

Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one…

— George Edward Woodberry

not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble,…

— Freya Stark

“being an artist: "And this susceptibility of theirs is doubly unfortunate , I thought, returning again to my original enquiry into what state of…

— Virginia Woolf

Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work…

— Marcel Duchamp

Bodybuilding is an art, your body is the canvas, weights are your brush and nutrition is your paint. We all have the ability to…

— Kai Greene

Light and subject is inseparable. But when it is well integrated, it becomes the work of a fine masterpiece.

— Paul Chong Hasang

Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in…

— John Hagee

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.

— Ansel Adams

The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must…

— H. L. Mencken

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

— Allegra Goodman

Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't…

— Steve Goodier