Art Quote by Michelangelo

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

— Charles Bukowski

An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.

— Yungblud

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought…

— Carl Andre

A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.

— Rembrandt

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

— Craig Raine

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

“... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion,…

— Anonymous

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

— Henri Matisse

An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel…

— Henri Matisse

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

— Keith Jarrett

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however…

— Andrei Tarkovsky