Art Quote by John Updike

“The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation…

— John Updike

“My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it…

— John Updike

The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends…

— Paul Strand

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

— Lyman Abbott

The artist must create himself or be born again.

— Denise Levertov

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

— Robin Gibb

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive…

— Patti Smith

Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive.

— Crane Wilbur

The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

— Henry Mille

The artist has tremendous power to change the world.

— Chogyam Trungpa

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and…

— Medardo Rosso

The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in...He has not created something,he has seen something.

— T. E. Hulme