Art Quote by Alvin Langdon Coburn

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

— Charles Bukowski

The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of…

— Graham Collier

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

— Joseph Conrad

The artist is not a man who describes, but a man who feels.

— e. e. cummings

An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.

— Philippe Claudel

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually…

— Anonymous

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

— Joni Mitchell

“An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how…

— Maxim Gorky

A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

— Edgar Degas

An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.

— e. e. cummings

For man is by nature an artist.

— Rabindranath Tagore

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