Art Quote by Eric Maisel

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

— Irving Stone

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another.

— Joseph Plaskett

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the…

— Diego Rivera

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually…

— Anonymous

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

— Jane Austen

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

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

— Orson Welles

Artists can do whatever they want!

— Marina Abramovic

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

— H. L. Mencken

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I don't think an artist does well without limitations.

— Hillman Curtis

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

— Ananda Coomaraswamy