Art Quote by Alfred Sisley

The way one sees is also dependent upon one's emotional state of mind. This is why a motif can be looked at in so…

— Edvard Munch

An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make…

— Robert Henri

An artist is generally expected to stick to one motif, one persona. People get used to seeing someone put down a certain thing.

— Ad-Rock

“The problem is, of course, that art typically requires an audience, which loops us right back to the problem of observing actions and losing…

— Maggie Nelson

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.

— J. E. H. MacDonald

The job of the artist is to point at things.

— Miranda July

That's really the whole point of art - it's to take something commonplace and draw people on a path so that, all of a…

— Genesis P-Orridge

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

I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.

— Marcel Duchamp

The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.

— Leland Bell

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

— Mark Tobey