Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not…

[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by…

— Simone Weil

[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.

— Roger Ballen

If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much…

— Nikka Costa

“You are divine, you are perfect, but as an artist, you create your own story and you have the illusion that the story is…

— Miguel Ruiz

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

— George Bernard Shaw

I believe strongly that the word 'protest' is no excuse for bad work. The artist must create.

— John Kani

An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.

— Maria Semple

A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an…

— Christian Keiber

“To question the world around us and all its complexities is not blasphamy, but simply using the mind God gave us for its intended…

— Cristina Marrero

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat…

— Oscar Wilde

Your best as an artist is to create something that resonates for you.

— Kehinde Wiley

One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your…

— Maurice Sendak

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be…

— Auguste Rodin

Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.

— Juliette Lewis

The artist must create himself or be born again.

— Denise Levertov