Art Quote by Douglas Portway

Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of…

— Jane Jacobs

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were…

— Paul Simon

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live…

— George Saunders

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

— Henry Moore

“It is essential that a work of art should be self-consistent, that an artist should consciously or unconsciously draw a circle beyond which he…

— T.S. Eliot

What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.

— Joseph Campbell

We live through life, but we live through art, too. And in art, as in life, nothing is generalized. No one thing is a…

— Anthony Doerr

The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm…

— Hans Hofmann

Art is a continuum.

— Daryl Hall

To all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a…

— Marcel Duchamp

The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

— Odilon Redon

The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines…

— James Joyce