Art Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he…

— Giuseppe Verdi

Every artist has limits. No one can do everything. It's impossible.

— Jonathan Lethem

Artists can do whatever they want!

— Marina Abramovic

It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.

— Pablo Picasso

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

— Langston Hughes

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the…

— Diego Rivera

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually…

— Anonymous

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

— Heinrich Böll

The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it,…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.

— Bob Dylan

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 greatest threat to any artist is surrounding themselves with people who love everything they do.

— John Cooper Clarke