Appropriate Quote by William Ernest Henley

The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.

— Oscar Wilde

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

— Jean Cocteau

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.

— John Updike

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

— Theophile Gautier

What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose…

— Anais Nin

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

— Tom Robbins

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

— Isabelle Adjani

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

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must…

— Charles F Kettering

As an artist, when you make something, you want the world to see it in its totality, especially when the intention is not to…

— Shweta Tripathi

“Life as an art cannot be copied; it must be created.”

— Nadia Bandura