Art Quote by Emil Nolde

The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.

— e. e. cummings

“The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.”

— Amit Kalantri

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

— Keith Jarrett

“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not…

— Chaim Potok

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

— Ludwig van Beethoven

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

— Lyman Abbott

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

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When…

— Albert Camus

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

— Robert Henri

The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

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

“An artist does things naturally, without effort. Some power guides his hand. A forger struggles, and if he succeeds, it is a genuine achievement.”

— Patricia Highsmith