Art Quote by Ayn Rand

The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or…

— Sarah Bernhardt

“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

He asked himself what is a woman standing on the stairs in the shadow, listening to distant music, a symbol of. If he were…

— James Joyce

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

— Twyla Tharp

Art is the clothing of a revelation

— Joseph Campbell

“His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's making dream…

— Anne Lamott

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

— André Aciman

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive…

— Patti Smith

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human…

— Rudolf Arnheim

The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired…

— Thomas Carlyle

I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what…

— Agnes Martin