Art Quote by Gustave Courbet

Art is not so much talent as character… it's what you are, the qualities of the person.

— John Olsen

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this…

— Pope John Paul II

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away…

— Richard Price

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

— Tom Stoppard

you don't need talent to be an artist. 'Artist' is just a frame of mind. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can communicate if…

— Yoko Ono

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

— Amy Lowell

“Whether you dance, draw, make music, shoot field goals, build houses, tune engines, or sit around all day watching television, you are an artist.…

— Scott Edmund Miller

Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of…

— Jacques Maritain

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

— Robert Rauschenberg

Art is something in which you are never an expert at any point of time. It's something you hone all the time and something…

— Mani Ratnam

Artmaking involves skills that can be learned. . . In large measure becoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which makes your…

— David Bayles

My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy