Art Quote by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

— Allan Bloom

The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic…

— James Joyce

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his…

— Marshall McLuhan

The great artist takes what he needs.

— Kenneth Clark

A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

— Edgar Degas

The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.

— George Bellows

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

— Joseph Conrad

In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece

— Kai Greene

Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

— Arthur Cravan