Art Quote by Jules Breton

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more…

— Ellsworth Kelly

I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for…

— Francis Bacon

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet…

— Raymond Chandler

Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely creative being and whose personality has been…

— Beatrice M. Hinkle

“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms…

— Joseph Conrad

The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is from the…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.

— George Bellows

The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to know you…

— Donato Giancola

“An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how…

— Maxim Gorky

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

— Piet Mondrian

“If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because…

— Plato

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson