Able Quote by Jerry Saltz

The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability…

— Plato

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

— Allan Bloom

“A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or a scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He…

— Jacob Bronowski

The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.

— Aleister Crowley

The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his…

— Marshall McLuhan

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

— Robert Henri

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

I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally, I don't…

— Marcel Duchamp

For man is by nature an artist.

— Rabindranath Tagore

I believe the artist is capable of contributing to the broader evolution of culture in all of its dimensions.

— Kehinde Wiley

...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to…

— Peter Block

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz