Art Quote by Thomas Merton

An artist should be as impartial as God.

— Wyndham Lewis

“This highest kind of truth is never something the artist takes as given. It's not his point of departure but his goal. Though the…

— John Gardner

The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by…

— Antoni Tapies

To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

— Oscar Wilde

“No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist…

— Oscar Wilde

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality,…

— John F. Kennedy

An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art.

— Peter Frampton

Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one…

— Pablo Picasso

“An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever…

— William Saroyan

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

— David Hockney