Adapting Quote by Wassily Kandinsky

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him…

— Henri Matisse

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

— Albert Pinkham Ryder

A man must be master of himself and master of his word to achieve the full realization of himself as an artist

— Robert Henri

“An artist does things naturally, without effort. Some power guides his hand. A forger struggles, and if he succeeds, it is a genuine achievement.”

— Patricia Highsmith

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent it may…

— Joseph Brodsky

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

“The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.”

— Truman Capote

“The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.”

— Amit Kalantri

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and…

— Medardo Rosso

I have come to see that an artist is not given a form - a style - but his nature merely gives him the…

— Jack Shadbolt

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain…

— John Updike