Art Quote by Ernst Gombrich

What an artist worries about when he plans his pictures, is something... difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he worries about…

— Ernst Gombrich

“An artist does not have to think about what he is doing.”

— Irving Stone

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

— Michelangelo

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

— Isaac Asimov

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather…

— Ben Shahn

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It keeps us honest.

— Lupita Nyong'o

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

— J. D. Salinger

“... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion,…

— Anonymous

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

— Langston Hughes

I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible…

— Keith Haring

I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The drawing is also a reminder that there’s an artist within each of us, and we must encourage that artist to do the work,…

— Steven Pressfield