Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of
relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses,
ridicules, or condemns.
--William Ernest Henley

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is
to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
--Abraham Moslow

Art is a jealous mistress.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become
ugly with time.
--Jean Cocteau French poet, novelist, director

I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more
truly artistic than to love people.
--Vincent van Gogh

My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you
become a monk, you'll end up as the pope.' Instead, I became a painter and
wound up as Picasso.
--Pablo Picasso

The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the
man who suffers and the mind which creates.
--T. S. Eliot

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough
to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.
--Julia Cameron

Art is born in attention. Its midwife is detail.
--Julia Cameron

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
--Emile Zola

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is
more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles
the world.
--Albert Einstein

Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths
of the mind.
--Robert Toth

Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take
that living and use it in a certain way, and produce art.
--Audre Lorde

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 (1919-____) English dancer

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others
are behind the time.
--Martha Graham

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you
continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child,
the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher the
acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of
the certain.
--Leo Buscaglia

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
--G.K. Chesterton

Good art maketh glad the heart of man.
Jeff Krewson

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is
take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to
irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of
shape and meaning.
--Katherine Anne Porter (1894-1980) US novelist, short-story writer

Every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain an artist once he
grows up.
--Pablo Picasso

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is
not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search
within.
--Louise Nevelson US sculptor, painter

Ars Longa, Vita Brevis - Art (is) Long, Life (is) Short
--Hippocrates

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
--Sunday in the Park with George, by Stephen Sondhiem and James Lapine

Rubbish in, rubbish out does not apply to a junk Artist.
--Tony Follari Comedian

Let your natural inclination be road sign that will take you to your destiny.
--Robert Richard Toth, Artist