Art Quote by Charles Baudelaire

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in…

— Ernest Becker

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

— Robin Gibb

“Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the…

— Chaim Potok

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

— Theophile Gautier

An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside of himself,…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

— Amy Lowell

Every artist of importance creates his own world, with its own laws - creates and shapes it in his own shape and image, and…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Some sort of pressure must exist; the artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends…

— Paul Strand

An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

— Carl Maria von Weber

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a…

— Anais Nin