Art Quote by Bram van Velde

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him; on the one hand, the common…

— Anonymous

“He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn't enough for him, although precisely this concept provides everything we need to be…

— Thomas Bernhard

“But I tell you, nothing is pointless, and nothing is meaningless if the artist will face it. And it’s his business to face it.…

— Katherine Ann Porter

I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible…

— Keith Haring

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

— Anton Chekhov

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

— T. S. Eliot

“An artist does not have to think about what he is doing.”

— Irving Stone

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

— Janet Fitch

In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

If I create with my heart almost all my intentions remain. If it is with the head - almost nothing. An artist must not…

— Marc Chagall

To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life

— Diego Rivera