Art Quote by Henry Moore

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason…

— Alma Gluck

What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

— Tom Hiddleston

How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we…

— Martin Firrell

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.

— Sebastian Horsley

When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness…

— Eric Maisel

Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he…

— Romare Bearden

The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents him from…

— Henry Moore

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale and thus…

— Wassily Kandinsky

In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the…

— Alex Grey

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

— Willem de Kooning