Art Quote by Patti Smith

It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.

— Patti Smith

The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.

— Ad Reinhardt

The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Nothing belongs more fully to an artist than his creation - even if you give him your youth, your money, your love, your courage,…

— Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things.

— Robert Henri

Who will dare say he has defined art?

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain…

— Albert Camus

The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

— Robert Henri

The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble…

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and…

— Freya Stark

A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what…

— Eric Maisel

“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