Art Quote by Eric Maisel

“Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a soul tortured…

— Lawrence Durrell

The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person.

— Ann Mortifee

“When an artist improvises and plays, she allows her intuitive self to meet up with her conscious mind.”

— Naomi Kinsman

“Before I learned the art of sensual living, a touch was just a touch, a kiss just a kiss. But after learning the art,…

— Lebo Grand

It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation,…

— George Santayana

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

— Remy de Gourmont

“An artistic person taps into the destructive emotional energy of guilt and shame and the longing to love and be loveable and transforms these…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease…

— Wassily Kandinsky

An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known.…

— Julia Cameron

“An artist is ultimately remembered for creating an uncompromised body of work. Uncompromised, unfettered and fiercely passionate.”

— Nidhie sharma