Art Quote by Henry Abbey

“Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the…

— Rainer M. Rilke

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over…

— Andre Malraux

“Eternity is an artist; time is its masterpiece.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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 job of art is to turn time into things.

— Robert Genn

“An artist makes the world her world. An artist makes her world the world. For a little while. For as long as it takes…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms…

— Joseph Conrad

Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one…

— Pablo Picasso

Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow…

— John F. Kennedy

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He…

— William Faulkner