Apprentice Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

— Gustave Flaubert

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

— Patti Smith

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

— John Updike

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme…

— Carl Jung

“But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift…

— Joseph Conrad

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior…

— Henry Miller

[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and…

— Joseph Conrad

God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his…

— Marshall McLuhan

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run…

— W. Somerset Maugham