Art Quote by Henri Matisse

By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose…

— Anais Nin

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

“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of…

— Max Beckmann

There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how…

— Rachel Cusk

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

— Roy Lichtenstein

And after drawing comes composition. A well-composed painting is half done

— Pierre Bonnard

The transposition that a painter makes with an original vision gives to the representation of nature a new interest.

— Paul Cezanne

It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material…

— William Ernest Henley

An artist's work is a synthesis of much more than the work of other creators.

— Phoebe Gloeckner

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

— Arthur Smith