Art Quote by Michael Chekhov

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason…

— Alma Gluck

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

The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create…

— Colin Blakemore

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

— Isaac Asimov

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

The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble…

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

“Art altogether is nothing but a survival skill, we should never lose sight of this fact, it is, time and again, just an attempt…

— Thomas Bernhard

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

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not…

— Vaclav Havel

Every normal human being (and not merely the 'artist') has an inexhaustible store of buried images in his subconscious, it is merely a matter…

— Max Ernst

And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain…

— Albert Camus

As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication.…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel