(1781 quotes found)
“True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.”
Albert Einstein
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
Oscar Wilde
“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”
“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.”
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“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
“I shut my eyes in order to see.”
Paul Gauguin
“Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.”
Pablo Picasso
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination”
“Bad artists always admire each others work.”