(1781 quotes found)
“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.”
William Blake
“As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done”
Pablo Picasso
“To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul”
Mahatma Gandhi
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
Charles Bukowski
“Every artist writes his own autobiography.”
Havelock Ellis
“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”
John Steinbeck
“In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable”
