Art Quote by Gustave Flaubert

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 treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to…

— Peter Block

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his…

— William Morris Hunt

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 one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends…

— Paul Strand

If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to…

— Gustave Flaubert

I do think it is a kind of illness in the sense that it sets you apart, it injects you with an endless, unslakable…

— Rebecca Miller

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

— William Faulkner

No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human…

— Rudolf Arnheim

“The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature.”

— Gustave Flaubert

It just happens in life, where you resonate with a particular artist. Or it can be a kind of food or a fashion -…

— Steve Vai

Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression…

— Cornel West