Alive Quote by Crane Wilbur

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the…

— J. G. Holland

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The artist must create himself or be born again.

— Denise Levertov

“The first creation of every artist is getting carved from the best moments of his life!!”

— Nelson Jack

I think anytime you see something that's been brought to life by an artist's hands, it just has a different kind of quality.

— Travis Knight

A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.

— Lee Hammond

Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive…

— Patti Smith

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

— Oscar Wilde

“Every artist thus keeps within himself a single source which nourishes during his lifetime what he is and what he says.”

— Albert Camus

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

— John Updike

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

— Henry Ward Beecher