Artist Quote by Childe Hassam

The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he…

— Eric Maisel

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to…

— Annie Dillard

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he…

— Samuel Butler

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.

— Marcel Duchamp

We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be…

— Jean Houston

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical.…

— Willem de Kooning

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.

— William Bernbach

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

— Samuel Butler

The man, the art, the work--it is all one.

— Eugen Herrigel

The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea.

— Robert Henri