Art Quote by Johannes Brahms

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain…

— John Updike

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

— Isaac Asimov

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

— Lewis Mumford

...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

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

The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just…

— Bill Vaughan

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and…

— Gerald Scarfe

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the…

— J. G. Holland

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain…

— Arnold Bennett

The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by…

— Antoni Tapies

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

To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir