Art Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.

— Rembrandt

The artist works with a concentration of his whole personality, and the conscious part of it resolves conflicts, organized memories, and prevents him from…

— Henry Moore

An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the…

— John Cage

Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will…

— Sol LeWitt

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls…

— Thom Yorke

When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

— Donald Woods Winnicott

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

— Jerzy Kosinski

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

— Oscar Wilde

Sometimes being an artist means knowing when to let someone see something in you that is there that you can't hear or see.

— Michael Buble

Whoever is in charge of the artist will always have the upper hand. They act like it's the artists' world, but it's the other…

— Sonny Sandoval

I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.

— Susan Rothenberg