Art Quote by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“A poet writing poetry, an artist creating calligraphy. An author scripting mastery with an encyclopedia intellect. From from a derelict's viewpoint, that can only…

— Jr. Lily

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly…

— Friedrich Schiller

I think that an artist should be a skilled craftsman.

— Shea Hembrey

The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is more capable…

— Ken Danby

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

— Anonymous

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet,…

— Oscar Wilde

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

— Tom Stoppard

The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It is painting…

— Harold Rosenberg

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

— Marianne Moore

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain…

— John Updike