Abstaining Quote by Andrei Tarkovsky

An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel…

— Henri Matisse

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 an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

— Edith Sitwell

The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

— Marshall McLuhan

The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

— Pablo Picasso

“Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution, knowledge of…

— David Bayles

Art demands constant observation.

— Vincent Van Gogh

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

— John Cassavetes

“Artists make art not because they have knowledge they want to "express" but because they want to discover or learn something through the practice…

— Daniel A. Siedell

The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.

— Asger Jorn

No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human…

— Rudolf Arnheim

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