Art Quote by Antoni Tapies

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

— Federico Fellini

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live…

— George Saunders

As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.

— Andre Malraux

“an artist, too, must see the world whole, he must somehow learn to see during the blinks, he must see where no one else…

— Chaim Potok

“Artists create holes and openings in the universe. They sidestep the conventional, conditional, predictable and habitual, and they illuminate and connect different worlds. They’re…

— Mary Button Durell

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of…

— Anselm Kiefer

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

— Joni Mitchell

The artist has tremendous power to change the world.

— Chogyam Trungpa

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He…

— Robert Henri

“Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen…

— Flannery O'Connor

The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect,…

— Adam Ferguson