Art Quote by Marcel Proust

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

— Tom Robbins

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

— Oscar Wilde

An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.

— John Thomas Sladek

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain…

— John Updike

I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often…

— W. H. Auden

“An artist does not create the way he lives, he lives the way he creates.”

— Jean Lescure

“The power of creativity does not just lie in an artist’s work, but also in how he or she continues to create regardless of…

— Sharon Louden

An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.

— Peter Handke

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

All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.

— Rollo May

“If the creative process is so powerful, it would be natural to wonder why many artists have difficulties in their lives. It is because…

— Robert Fritz

The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is from the…

— Ludwig van Beethoven