Art Quote by Abraham Maslow

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What…

— Abraham Maslow

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.

— Luc Delahaye

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease…

— Wassily Kandinsky

When one is an artist, what else can he be?

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

— Paul Klee

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

— Irving Stone

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him…

— Henri Matisse

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

— Robin Gibb

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

— Louise Bourgeois

Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds…

— Paul Theroux

An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.

— e. e. cummings

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.

— Keith Richards