Art Quote by Carl Maria von Weber

“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

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

— Marcel Proust

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to…

— David Mamet

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its…

— Oscar Wilde

“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms…

— Joseph Conrad

Like books, artists have their fates.

— Norbert Lynton

One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or…

— Anonymous

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

— Rollo May

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the…

— J. G. Holland

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

— W. Somerset Maugham

And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain…

— Albert Camus

Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow…

— John F. Kennedy