Art Quote by Henri Matisse

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 is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his…

— Marshall McLuhan

An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

— Henry Moore

The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.

— Marshall McLuhan

“An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how…

— Maxim Gorky

An artist paints his own reality.

— Ernie Barnes

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

— Michelangelo

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

— Joseph Conrad

An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known.…

— Julia Cameron

An artist, if he is truly an artist, is only interested in one thing and that is to wake up the minds of men,…

— Marvin Gaye

“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not…

— Chaim Potok