Art Quote by Pablo Picasso

Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

— Lucian Freud

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.

— Francois Delsarte

“We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. The objects that provoke aesthetic emotion vary with…

— Clive Bell

The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it…

— Pierre Bonnard

The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

— Odilon Redon

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared…

— Muriel Rukeyser

“Thought and plot are not so important as some would make them out to be. The object of any work of art is the…

— James Joyce

“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms…

— Joseph Conrad

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.

— Ernst Haas

It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings.

— Franklin Carmichael