When a real artist creates something, it has to be a…

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

— Horace Mann

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“What has become an urgent necessity is a way of looking at the world that does violence to neither of these two kinds of…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“From this era on, I think invention will be the parent of necessity – and not the other way around.’ That was easy for…

— Vernor Vinge

My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist…

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

If people really stopped and realized how much art and creative people move the world versus politics and religion, I mean it’s not even…

— Marilyn Manson

“Thanks for your encouraging words. But I know the grim realities of being an artist. Most of us would never make a mark in…

— Abhaidev

Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.

— Marge Piercy

With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

— Kazimir Malevich

It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.

— Stephane Mallarme

“A true artist creates art because they have a passion and desire to do so.”

— Anne-Rae Vasquez

“It takes two to make a work of art: the artist and those for whom he creates; and no artist of any significance has…

— Thomas Craven

“Shadow is an intelligent artist; it creates its works in places where there are already great beauties!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever…

— William Saroyan