True Artist Quotes

59 True Artist quotes by 51 unique authors

I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur. — Nick Cannon
The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen… — Willa Cather
Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly… — Ludwig Bemelmans
A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's… — Alexander Skarsgard
The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal. — Bronislaw Huberman
In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid. — Terry Pratchett
If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must… — John F. Kennedy
Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of… — Piet Mondrian
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything… — George Bernard Shaw
Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are… — Keith Floyd
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal body… — Unknown Author
Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice… — Dean Koontz
In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression. — Pablo Picasso
Hypnotically haunting sounds from a true artist that dares to dream. — John Lindberg
To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul. — Mahatma Gandhi
Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine. — Marco Pierre White
Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely… — Oscar Wilde
The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The… — Oscar Wilde
The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It… — Robert Henri

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