Art Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a…

— Anais Nin

The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.

— Romare Bearden

“An artist makes the world her world. An artist makes her world the world. For a little while. For as long as it takes…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

To create a work of art is to create the world.

— Wassily Kandinsky

The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

— William Matthews

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and…

— Medardo Rosso

An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your…

— Maurice Sendak

“What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?”

— Andre Dubus

A job the artist does which no-one else does is to dismantle existing communication codes and to combine some of their elements into structures…

— Victor Burgin

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

— Michelangelo

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.

— Henri Matisse