Art Quote by Ludwig van Beethoven

Let the artist have just enough to eat, and the tools of this trade: ask nothing of him. Materially make the life of the…

— Clive Bell

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

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

Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one…

— Pablo Picasso

An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find…

— Vincent Van Gogh

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be…

— Nick Cave

I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the genuine indirectness…

— Graham Cray

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

— Sylvie Guillem

So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.…

— William Faulkner

To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor…

— Robin G. Collingwood

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

— Joni Mitchell