Art Quote by Annette Messager

An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

— Lyman Abbott

An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it...

— Willem de Kooning

Anybody that creates anything is just creating new compositions of things that have existed before. We're all creating something, we're all creating our own…

— Rick Owens

Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

— Yann Martel

The artist is called a creator...

— George Henry Lewes

It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than…

— E. J. Hughes

By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and…

— William Faulkner

The trick is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, and yet that fits perfectly into an artist's body of work.

— Wolfgang Beltracchi

I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally, I don't…

— Marcel Duchamp

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

— Harold Rosenberg

An artist's work is a synthesis of much more than the work of other creators.

— Phoebe Gloeckner