Artist Quote by Claude Debussy

“he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it…

— Douglas Adams

“He was the most astonishing contradiction of components I’d ever encountered. Shy yet fiercely communicative when putting an idea into your head. Vocally astringent…

— Chip Kidd

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

— Gustave Flaubert

Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“He was an artist of rare ability, a self-taught artist, without teachers or schools, principles and rules, carried away only by the thirst for…

— Nikolai Gogol

Velázquez, past the age of fifty, no longer painted specific objects. He drifted around things like the air, like twilight, catching unawares in the…

— Elie Faure

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

— Pierre Soulages

The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never…

— John Edgar Park

Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.

— Roy Lichtenstein

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

— Paul Cezanne

As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, -…

— Charles Dickens

“He was out there alone with himself, composed, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart to the serenity of the skies, moved in…

— Victor Hugo