Art Quote by Steven Pressfield

“You must first reach a certain level in your own art before studying other arts. Too much looking around is not good as it…

— Dan Johns

What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the…

— Oscar Wilde

An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside of himself,…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“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

Making the inner meet the outer is the function of the artist.

— Joseph Campbell

“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

“Sometimes the only way to understand an artist is to wear his shoes, to get inside him. Then everything else flows naturally.”

— André Aciman

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

— Antoni Tapies

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing…

— Caspar David Friedrich

The artist's role is to do what is honest for them. So if you're in New York and everyone is looking at the floor,…

— James T. Hubbell

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 must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge