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An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

— Raymond Chandler

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the…

— Diego Rivera

I'm convinced that, in the end, art is not for the artist but for their fellow man.

— George Rickey

“I have no sympathy with the belief that art is the restricted province of those who paint, sculpt, make music and verse. I hope…

— Robert Henri

The man who speaks and writes about art should refrain from censuring or pontificating. He will thus avoid doing anything foolish, for in the…

— Hans Arp

An artist, if he is truly an artist, is only interested in one thing and that is to wake up the minds of men,…

— Marvin Gaye

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

— John Steinbeck

“Myself I cannot see the persistence of the artist type. I see no need for the individual man of genius in such an order.…

— Henry Miller

“To me, the true artist is one who lives completely, harmoniously, who does not divide his art from living, whose very life is that…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.

— T. S. Eliot

It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and…

— Andrei Tarkovsky