Art Quote by Bill Vaughan

“It always surprises me when people assume that something an artist has created is based on a true experience or reflects his or her…

— Michael Jackson

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do…

— Wallace Stevens

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

The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the…

— Frantisek Kupka

As an artist, one doesn't know what is real. And so there's a search and a process of trying to locate something that feels…

— Chris Martin

“Life, raw life, the kind we lead every day, whether it leads us into the past or the future, has the curious property of…

— Wright Morris

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

“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

Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him…

— Johannes Brahms

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

— Robert Henri

A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render... the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany or showing…

— Joseph Campbell