Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. ~Pablo Picasso
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. ~Andy Warhol
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike. ~Maya Angelou
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose. ~Langston Hughes
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. ~Oscar Wilde
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher
It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way. ~Tim Burton
Every artist was first an amateur. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist. ~Lana Del Rey
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist. ~Jasper Johns
Great artists suffer for the people. ~Marvin Gaye
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. ~Charles Dudley Warner
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times. ~Martha Graham
As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value. ~Phylicia Rashad
Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. ~Al Hirschfeld
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. ~Eugene Delacroix
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. ~Margot Fonteyn
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy. ~Erykah Badu
Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art. ~Josh Peck
The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools. ~Thomas Eakins
An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else. ~Van Cliburn
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces. ~Thomas Aquinas
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. ~George Santayana
True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. ~Auguste Rodin
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ~Emile Zola
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul. ~Wassily Kandinsky
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul. ~Kate Chopin
You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice. ~Lauryn Hill
Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen. ~Andrew Wyeth
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves. ~David Hockney
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. ~Henry Miller
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. ~Auguste Rodin
Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from. ~Wiz Khalifa
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. ~Jackson Pollock
There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright. ~Dylan Thomas
The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. ~Agnes De Mille
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. ~Willem de Kooning
To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show. ~Blake Shelton
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. ~Pierre-Auguste Renoir
A great artist is a great man in a great child. ~Victor Hugo
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles. ~Albert Camus
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium. ~Henry Rollins
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does. ~William Blake
Even a true artist does not always produce art. ~Carroll O'Connor
The great artist is a slave to his ideals. ~Christian Nestell Bovee
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. ~Novalis
Every artist writes his own autobiography. ~Havelock Ellis
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. ~Simone De Beauvoir
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators. ~Igor Stravinsky
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. ~W. Somerset Maugham
