Art Quote by Alexander Calder

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were…

— Arthur Erickson

“Art isn’t explanation. Art is what an artist does, not what an artist explains.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

— Michelangelo

Why an artist loves what they do is often so hard to describe.

— Elisabeth Moss

An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.

— Nancy Spero

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When…

— Albert Camus

To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.

— Laura Esquivel

To understand an artist is to be a genius.

— Andrew Lakey

An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The job of the artist is to point at things.

— Miranda July

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

— Mahatma Gandhi

An artist’s work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and focusing on…

— Teresita Fernandez