(1781 quotes found)
“People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.”
Oscar Wilde
“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“We artists! We moon-struck and God-struck ones! We death-silent, untiring wanderers on heights which we do not see as heights, but as our plains, as our places of safety!”
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.”
“The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.”
Auguste Rodin
“The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
Pablo Picasso
“Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much”
Dorothy Parker
“Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.”
