Bats Quote by Norman Rockwell

All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.

— John Prebble

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.

— William Bernbach

This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if…

— Georgiana Burne-Jones

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

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

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This…

— Mencius

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must…

— Paul Cezanne

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

— Eugene Delacroix

“There is, perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With…

— Dame Edna Everage

The duty of the artist is not to be calculating in any sense, so that he may be free himself of human emotions while…

— Karel Appel

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

— Marcel Proust