Artist, The

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and Id bet I wouldnt lose 10 % of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. – Berke Breathed

In a certain sense every creative person is a reformer, but this does not mean that he must be in his work a propagandist for good roads, shorter hours, and a low tariff. All these are excellent things, but they need not be the concern of the artist. – Heywood Broun

The artist has one function–to affirm and glorify life. – W. Edward Brown

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs – Anthony Burgess

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it creative observation. Creative viewing. – William S. Burroughs

In order to create, we draw from our inner well. This inner well, an artistic reservoir, is ideally like a well stocked fish pond… If we don – Julia Cameron

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth. – Joseph Campbell

In a portrait, I – Henri Cartier-Bresson

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. – Marc Chagall

Taste! It doesnt exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it. – Edgar Degas

The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being. – Francois Delsarte

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. – Max Eastman

What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. Its this in-between…this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one — which is really the realm of the artist. – Federico Fellini

In the artists recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world. – John W. Gardner

The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting. – Paul Gauguin

But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself. – Paul Gauguin

Sooner or later people will learn to recognize your worth – Paul Gauguin