Quotes About Artist

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.

Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.

Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.

If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

I mean, I'm an artist by nature, no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

However, an artist is limited only by his own skill and imagination. He's in total control of his art. Whereas nature is the artist here, and I merely try to interpret and manage her design.

I am the eye that beholds... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky... For I am the one they call artist, and you call Love.

You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling.

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.

I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.

My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.