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Artist Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds…
- Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see…
- What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art.
- The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for…
- Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many…
- The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to…
- To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion
More Artist Quotes
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu