Acknowledge Quote by Felix Mendelssohn

First and foremost an artist should pay homage to grandness, honour and bow to it, and not try to extinguish the fierce flames of…

— Felix Mendelssohn

If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.

— Walter Becker

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

I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

— Serj Tankian

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

— Anonymous

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

— Tom Bissell

An artist should be as impartial as God.

— Wyndham Lewis

The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in…

— Thomas Merton

Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done...

— Henri Matisse

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

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

I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.

— Brice Marden