What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality. — John Edgar Park Copy Share Image
There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding… — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine. — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation. — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of… — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
A true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it. — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
An artist's career doesn't happen in the cycle of one week of news. An artist's career happens in a lifetime, and if… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days. — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. That is all… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist. — Hokusai Copy Share Image