Art Quote by Walter J. Phillips

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

— Edgar Degas

A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or…

— Walter J. Phillips

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there,…

— Albert Camus

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were…

— Arthur Erickson

An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.

— Louis Leakey

“I hope the artist who illustrates this work will take care to do justice to his portrait. Mr. Clive himself, let that painter be…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

— Tom Bissell

If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases,…

— Henry James

[The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise to its…

— Sol LeWitt

The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.

— Albert Pinkham Ryder