Able Quote by Mikhail Baryshnikov

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

— Orson Welles

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

— Placido Domingo

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

— Bob Dylan

“As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of…

— Jasper Johns

The great artist takes what he needs.

— Kenneth Clark

In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws…

— E. M. Forster

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of…

— Jasper Johns

“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

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

— Orson Welles

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

“We want our artists to take the mundane materials of our lives, run it through their imaginations, and surprise us.”

— Twyla Tharp

An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the…

— John Cage