Art Quote by Lyman Abbott

An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The artist is called a creator...

— George Henry Lewes

The artist must create himself or be born again.

— Denise Levertov

The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in...He has not created something,he has seen something.

— T. E. Hulme

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

— Robin Gibb

A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.

— Lee Hammond

An artist's work is a synthesis of much more than the work of other creators.

— Phoebe Gloeckner

Nothing can stop an artist from creating.

— Invader

Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists, to put…

— Annette Messager

I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally, I don't…

— Marcel Duchamp

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

— John Updike

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

— Annie Dillard