Art Quote by James Whistler

If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would…

— Calvin Coolidge

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

— Claude Monet

If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.

— Paul Strand

The painter... will find [photography] a rapid way of making collections of studies he could otherwise obtain only with much time and trouble and,…

— Paul Delaroche

An artist, if he is truly an artist, is only interested in one thing and that is to wake up the minds of men,…

— Marvin Gaye

The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is more capable…

— Ken Danby

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his…

— William Morris Hunt

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

— Leonardo da Vinci

In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment…

— Edward Weston

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

— Max Ernst

For man is by nature an artist.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The great painter has something to say. He does not paint men, landscapes, or furniture; but an idea.

— Robert Henri