Artist Quote by e. e. cummings

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

— John Constable

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

— Glen Duncan

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

— Emil Nolde

The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his…

— Marshall McLuhan

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he…

— Giuseppe Verdi

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme…

— Carl Jung

There does not exist a painter who knows himself or knows what he is doing.

— Marcel Duchamp

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain…

— John Updike

The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.

— Georges Rouault

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

— Marshall McLuhan