Art Quote by Walt Whitman

Every man is an artist.

— Joseph Beuys

The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

— Oscar Wilde

The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities,…

— Jacques Barzun

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

“Every artist thus keeps within himself a single source which nourishes during his lifetime what he is and what he says.”

— Albert Camus

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

— William Blake

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.

— Auguste Rodin

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who…

— Virginia Woolf

An artist, if he is truly an artist, is only interested in one thing and that is to wake up the minds of men,…

— Marvin Gaye

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and…

— Marvin Gaye

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.…

— Albert Camus