Acquire Quote by Brander Matthews

“An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how…

— Maxim Gorky

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and…

— Gerald Scarfe

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him…

— Henri Matisse

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially…

— Oscar Wilde

...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to…

— Peter Block

“My theory is that the purpose of art is to transmit universal truths of a sort, but of a particular sort, that in art,…

— Walker Percy

Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he…

— Romare Bearden

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed…

— Anonymous

Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate.

— Tom Ford

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

— Joseph Conrad

Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish…

— Pope John Paul II

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

— Tom Hiddleston