Alive Quote by Robert Henri

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He…

— Robert Henri

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

— Robin Gibb

No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human…

— Rudolf Arnheim

The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines…

— James Joyce

Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.

— Harold Rosenberg

The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends…

— Paul Strand

The creative person is constantly seeking to discover himself, to remodel his own identity, and to find meaning in what he creates.

— Anthony Storr

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed…

— Anonymous

“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not…

— Chaim Potok

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds…

— Constantin Stanislavski

An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel…

— Henri Matisse

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his…

— William Morris Hunt