Art Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he's somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he's making dream…

— Anne Lamott

The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.

— Romare Bearden

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run…

— W. Somerset Maugham

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of…

— Anselm Kiefer

To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a…

— Marcel Duchamp

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of…

— Pablo Picasso

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

— John Updike

The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.

— Harry Crews

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of…

— Graham Collier

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 vessel for creativity. He has the key to the door of a very special place, which he can open at…

— Thomas J. Katz