Art Quote by Albert Pinkham Ryder

“The artist should thus derive the freest possible inspiration from his dream images and strive toward a "super realism" in which the boundaries between…

— Jostein Gaarder

The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and…

— Eric Maisel

The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.

— Georges Rodenbach

And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain…

— Albert Camus

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

— George Santayana

“The supreme artist lives as closely as possible to replicating the perfect dream, with life unfolding in a manner that a person could never…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he knows that…

— Michael Chekhov

The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

— Robert Henri

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive…

— Patti Smith

Each artist comes to the painting or sculpture because there he can be told that he, the individual, transcends all classes and flouts all…

— Ben Shahn

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

— William Faulkner