Art Quote by Odilon Redon

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist

— Anonymous

The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the…

— Charles Baudelaire

Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow…

— John F. Kennedy

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what…

— Paul Banks

Why an artist loves what they do is often so hard to describe.

— Elisabeth Moss

For me, artists are the world's pain receptors. That is why they have such a hard time living.

— France Gall

The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it…

— Isadora Duncan

And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who doesn't want…

— David Bowie

The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.

— George Bellows

I believe that the artist's feelings are in some way generative. And I suspect that much of the artist's most productive emotion - not…

— Carter Ratcliff

I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to…

— Mary Cassatt