Amazon Quote by Harlan Ellison

“Peter used to say, "The only thing an artist can do is describe his own face." You're doomed to being you. This, he says,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“What I'd said wasn't any kind of honesty, but Simon had perfected the art of seeing what he wanted to see, because it's easier…

— Catherine Lacey

“He's been living on the fringes of art for so many years, talking and talking about it, that he's come to expect all the…

— Richard Yates

“He connected with the storytelling in the manuscript painting, he said, because it was clear to him that this artist, working hundreds of years…

— Christian Madsbjerg

“Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.”

— Albrecht Dürer

“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

“As he went about to the other workrooms he realised that every painting was a self-portrait even when it was a still life or…

— Irving Stone

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 painted picture was a bit rough, which was probably done on purpose, yet seemed eerily real as if there actually was a way…

— Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea

[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers.…

— Gustave Flaubert

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

— Robert Henri

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