(1782 quotes found)
“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”
Andre Gide
“Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music -- his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting -- that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.”
Oscar Wilde
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
William Somerset Maugham
“The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.”
Elia Kazan
“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.”
Henry Mille
“The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”
Pablo Picasso
“Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.”
