Art Quote by Anonymous

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

— Paul Valery

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

— Michelangelo

Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done...

— Henri Matisse

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.

— Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease…

— Wassily Kandinsky

And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain…

— Albert Camus

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

— Oscar Wilde

An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.

— Pablo Picasso

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“The true artist has no pride. He sees unfortunately that art has no limits; he has a vague awareness of how far he is…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

— H. G. Wells

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

— e. e. cummings