Accepting Quote by Keith Johnstone

It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.

— Bridget Riley

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the…

— M. C. Escher

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize…

— Fernando Botero

The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he…

— Eric Maisel

...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

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

— Bridget Riley

Basically, I feel inspired by any artist that seems to want to introduce the world to their likes and perspective rather than trying to…

— Marie Calloway

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

— Laozi

How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we…

— Martin Firrell

The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme…

— Carl Jung

“The really inspired person is never inspired: he's always inspired: he doesn't go looking for inspiration and he doesn't get up in arms about…

— Raymond Queneau

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

— John Cage