Art Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.

— Galina Ulanova

I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

— Francis Bacon

The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is…

— Wassily Kandinsky

“Art is central to all our lives, not just the better-off and educated. . . I know that from my own story, and from…

— Jeanette Winterson

This is the birth of the modern human soul. The artists are like us, not like the Neanderthals, who had no culture - and…

— Werner Herzog

Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved.

— Denis Dutton

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's a thrill to see the birth of an artist.

— Rene Angelil

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

— Ezra Pound

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

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our lucidity.

— Edgard Varese