Art Quote by Hubert Selby, Jr

The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

— Oscar Wilde

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

— Edgar Degas

“Artists see the invisible before anyone else.”

— Donna Goddard

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

— Gustave Flaubert

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

— Edith Sitwell

If you're going to be a visual artist, then there has to be something in the work that accounts for the possibility of the…

— Richard Tuttle

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.

— Hans Hofmann

In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.

— Paul Klee

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

— Marcel Duchamp

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

— Paul Klee

It’s what’s invisible that creates what’s visible.

— T. Harv Eker

Sometimes being an artist means knowing when to let someone see something in you that is there that you can't hear or see.

— Michael Buble