Art Quote by Annie Dillard

“We are talking about an artist; What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out…

— G.K. Chesterton

“We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.”

— Twyla Tharp

“Tell me something boss. What do you think is the highest form of art? 'Literature," he answered without hesitation. 'Painters and sculptors require elaborate…

— Tiffany Reisz

An artist should use freely whatever materials he pleases.

— Shozaburo Watanabe

“An artist does things naturally, without effort. Some power guides his hand. A forger struggles, and if he succeeds, it is a genuine achievement.”

— Patricia Highsmith

“A writer is lost when he grows interested in such questions as 'what is art?' and 'what is an artist's duty?”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He…

— William Faulkner

“But I want to paint you. That’s how artists come to possess things beyond their means, can you understand that?”

— Lakambini A. Sitoy

“Regardless of its quality, no one wants to destroy what they created after so many sleepless nights. This is what distinguishes an artist from…

— Abhaidev

“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not…

— Chaim Potok

“An artist does not have to think about what he is doing.”

— Irving Stone

“Sometimes the only way to understand an artist is to wear his shoes, to get inside him. Then everything else flows naturally.”

— André Aciman