Art Quote by Max Ernst

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image…

— D. H. Lawrence

The picture must all come out of the artist's inside. It is the image that lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but…

— D. H. Lawrence

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

No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human…

— Rudolf Arnheim

What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he knows that…

— Michael Chekhov

In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There, free of…

— Pavel Florensky

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must…

— Virginia Woolf

I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going…

— Eric Drooker

So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put…

— Edward Hopper

The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

— Odilon Redon