Art Quote by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must…

— Paul Cezanne

We're in an era where you learn about techniques, but you don't experience anything crucial in yourself about a piece of work from an…

— Rob Nilsson

I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of…

— William Wordsworth

First and foremost an artist should pay homage to grandness, honour and bow to it, and not try to extinguish the fierce flames of…

— Felix Mendelssohn

A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.

— Anonymous

The artist’s memory is a dangerous, necessary thing. Never disavow what you see and remember-it’s your brilliant stock-in-trade: remembering, and making something out of…

— Hilton Als

In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece

— Kai Greene

“You will not find a treatise that is too learned for me; without laying claim to any genuine learning, I yet accustomed myself from…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is…

— Jack Kirby

“Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most of present…

— Charlotte Brontë

“A true great artist at heart never ceases to create, continuously amazes and keeps sharing his gift despite barriers, judgement, fears and dreaded myths.…

— Elizabeth E. Castillo

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

— Ilya Ehrenburg