Art Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art -…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The great artist takes what he needs.

— Kenneth Clark

The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must…

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

— Federico Fellini

He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than…

— Albrecht Durer

A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.

— Stevie Smith

An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art.

— Peter Frampton

“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 must be ruthlessly selfish.

— W. Eugene Smith

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive…

— Patti Smith

The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that…

— Peter Schjeldahl

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme…

— Carl Jung