| The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. -Francis Bacon |
| The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work. -Emile Zola |
| The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. -W. Somerset Maugham |
| The artist belongs to his work; not the work to the artist. -Novalis |
| To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. Auguste Rodin |
| In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. -Carl Sagan |
| An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing. -Louise Bourgeois |
| We are all artists even if we don't know how to draw. -Kyle Knight (a 8 year old) |
| No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist. -Salvador Dali |
| Every great artist has a closet full of bad paintings. |
| The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. -Marc Chagall |
| The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs. -Romare Bearden |
| An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. -Charles Horton Cooley |
| The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist. -Ananda Coomaraswamy |
