Best True Artist Quotes

59 True Artist quotes by 51 unique authors

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes. — Oscar Wilde
A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same… — Constantin Stanislavski
The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths. — Bruce Nauman
With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is… — Rosa Luxemburg
If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after… — Ali Akbar Khan
A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create. — Lee Hammond
There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone.… — Athol Fugard
I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody… — Haley Reinhart
I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and… — Jemima Kirke
I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life. — Randy Houser
A true artist is an ugly man. — Osamu Dazai
Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself. — Robert Schumann
Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it. — Roger Scruton
The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence. — Walter J. Phillips
Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar,… — Tom Peters
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. — D. H. Lawrence
Even a true artist does not always produce art. — Carroll O'Connor
Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in. — D. H. Lawrence
However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't it plain how… — J D Salinger
do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation — Vladimir Nabokov
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so… — John Gardner
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others. — Salvador Dali
For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present. — Alejandro Jodorowsky
Every true artist is at war with the world. — Anthony Kiedis
The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is… — John Gardner

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