Artists Quotes

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Pablo Picasso

Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.

Pope John Paul II

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Camille Pissarro

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(, 8 September 1935)

Dorothy L. Sayers

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

Oscar Wilde

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.

Friedrich Nietzsche

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Oscar Wilde

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.

Henry David Thoreau

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Aberjhani

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

Oscar Wilde

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

Virginia Woolf

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

Oscar Wilde