Art Quote by Lewis Hyde

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation

— Lewis Hyde

“We may not have the power to profess our gifts as the artist does, and yet we come to recognize, and in a sense…

— Lewis Hyde

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases…

— Seth Godin

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part…

— Ezra Pound

This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him. Not a…

— Martin Buber

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.

— Paddy Mitchell

The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

— T Bone Burnett

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

— Keith Jarrett

When a real artist creates something, it has to be a necessity, the only way he can say something.

— Sylvie Guillem

“Whether it means producing a piece of art, writing a short story, or simply bringing beauty into our home or into the lives of…

— Mary Potter Kenyon

The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us.…

— Henri Matisse

The woman who needs to create works of art is born with a kind of psychic tension in her which drives her unmercifully to…

— May Sarton