Art Quote by Alfred Sisley

The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

— Odilon Redon

The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes of little…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings.

— Franklin Carmichael

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

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

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

— Lucian Freud

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in…

— Pablo Picasso

I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what…

— Agnes Martin

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and…

— Medardo Rosso