Art Quote by Socrates

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 is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of…

— Graham Collier

The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability…

— Plato

The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his…

— Marshall McLuhan

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

— Robert Henri

“We are talking about an artist; What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out…

— G.K. Chesterton

Part of the artist's journey is fulfilling your own personal desires and everybody has different ideas about things they'd like to accomplish creatively.

— Kim Wayans

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

— Marcel Proust

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

— Ernst Haas

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive…

— Patti Smith

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not…

— Henry Miller

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