“The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.”
Joseph Campbell
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
Albert Einstein
“The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements”
Anais Nin
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.”
Henry Mille
“Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul”
William Somerset Maugham
