Artist Quotes | Quotsagram

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

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