Art Quote by Giuseppe Verdi

The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be…

— Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is from the…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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

— Henri Matisse

The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.

— Eric Maisel

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make…

— W. Somerset Maugham

It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent…

— James A. Baldwin

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.

— Norman Reilly Raine

It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to create. A…

— Derek R. Audette

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

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.

— Robert Breault

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain…

— John Updike

I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become…

— Michelangelo