Art Quote by Oscar Wilde

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic…

— Oscar Wilde

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

— Claude Monet

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

— Marianne Moore

I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that…

— Joe Murray

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can…

— Al Jourgensen

“No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his personality. He expresses his personality indirectly through concentrating upon a task which…

— T.S. Eliot

“An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how…

— Maxim Gorky

You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and…

— Anton Chekhov

In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his…

— Brander Matthews

I stick to what I do best, and I think what makes an artist an artist is when they know who they are.

— Jay Sean

I think that to be a good artist, you have to have ideas as well as manual skills. It's a blend of the two,…

— Michael C. McMillen

The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

— William Faulkner