Art Quote by Henry de Vere Stacpoole

“Memory cannot produce a picture that Imagination has not retouched; and her pictures, even the ones least touched by Imagination, are no mere photographs,…

— Henry de Vere Stacpoole

Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original,…

— Kris Kristofferson

“creative forces comes only when there is a completely rounded-out thought, when there is a fully developed mental picture, or when the imagination can…

— Claude M. Bristol

“For when one has set his heart upon an idea—which is, perhaps, nothing but the creation of his own fancy, as unsubstantial as the…

— G.H. Pember

“An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.”

— Darrell Case

Everything I've done hasn't worked out - you know, some things aren't as great as others - but I'm having so much fun, who…

— Beth Grant

I had two great art teachers at school, but even they tried to tell me it was too hard a world. But that made…

— Cornelia Parker

It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!

— Paul Auster

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

— Oscar Wilde

We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument that registers…

— Henry Miller

“There never has been an artistic age, or an artistic people, since the beginning of the world. The artist has always been, and will…

— Oscar Wilde

What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?

— William Butler Yeats