Art Quote by T. E. Hulme

The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

— Edgar Degas

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

— Lyman Abbott

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

— Gustave Flaubert

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

— Edith Sitwell

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

— John Updike

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

An artist sees things not as they are, but as he is.

— Robert Beverly Hale

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

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope forother people is that…

— William S. Burroughs

The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The artist is a vessel for creativity. He has the key to the door of a very special place, which he can open at…

— Thomas J. Katz

“My main task as an artist is to show you either what you have never seen before -- or to show you what you…

— Mike Duron