Art Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“I do not say that artists cannot be seers, inspired: that the awen cannot come upon them, and the god speak through them. Who…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It seems to me that what the artist sees is the simple and obvious that is invisible to everybody else.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

“Artists see the invisible before anyone else.”

— Donna Goddard

“The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring…

— James Joyce

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 man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

— William Blake

Art is the god you have not seen.

— Mary Butts

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

— Edgar Degas

The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in...He has not created something,he has seen something.

— T. E. Hulme

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the…

— J. G. Holland

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world…

— Lady Bird Johnson

Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance -…

— Julia Cameron