Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. Leo Tolstoy Arts #Artist #Feeling #Handicraft
I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize. Jodie Foster Arts #Artist #Complex #Realize
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. Alexander Calder Arts #Artist #Good #Perfect
I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind. Henry Ossawa Tanner Arts #Artist #Ordinary #Spot
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. Jean Cocteau Arts #Artist #Copy #Order
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. W. Somerset Maugham Arts #Adventure #Artist #Soul
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' Edgar Allan Poe Arts #Artist #Nature #Soul
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public. Maurice Chevalier Arts #Artist #Life #Mysterious
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. Napoleon Bonaparte Love #Artist #Politics #Power
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. Auguste Rodin Arts #Artist #Creation #Fire
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski Arts #Artist #Says #Simple
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. Jackson Pollock Arts #Artist #Good #Painting
I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art. Rhys Ifans Arts #Artisan #Artist #Watch
I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters. Marilyn Manson Arts #Artist #Pain #Suffering
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. Robert Smithson Arts #Artist #Limits #Rather
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger. Rainer Maria Rilke Arts #Artist #Danger #Great
The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say. Octavio Paz Arts #Artist #Unfaithful #Work
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. John F. Kennedy Arts #Artist #Culture #Society