Appearance Quote by Marcel Duchamp

To all appearances the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a…

— Marcel Duchamp

“Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist on one hand, and on the other the…

— Marcel Duchamp

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive…

— Patti Smith

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of…

— Anselm Kiefer

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

— Antoni Tapies

The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of…

— Graham Collier

The artist labors while he may, But finds at best too brief the day; And, tho' his works outlast the time And nation that…

— Henry Abbey

The artist is a vessel for creativity. He has the key to the door of a very special place, which he can open at…

— Thomas J. Katz

The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and…

— Carl Jung

“Artists create holes and openings in the universe. They sidestep the conventional, conditional, predictable and habitual, and they illuminate and connect different worlds. They’re…

— Mary Button Durell

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 artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.

— Francois Delsarte