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By means of the iconic, artists express their view of reality and show their understanding of the structure of reality. They see what they…

— Hans Rookmaaker

“Any artist is insulted by the suggestion that art is merely a matter of recording reality, and knows that it is impossible to explain…

— Joan Lindsay

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create…

— Colin Blakemore

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

— Federico Fellini

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

— Oscar Wilde

I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often…

— W. H. Auden

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

— Havelock Ellis

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

— Isaac Asimov

The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is from the…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

— Claude Monet

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

— William Dobell

The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is more capable…

— Ken Danby