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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Intentions · 1891

★ 3.7

Obituary · Newspaper

To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.

The New York Times

★ 3.7

In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists.

1895

★ 3.6

But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom: to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition—and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives: to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain.

1897

★ 3.6

Film · Animation (film) · Comedy (film) · Animation · Comedy

Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.

Ratatouille · 2007

★ 3.5

Essay · Magazine · Political literature

The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 2.0

Autobiography and memoir

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he—for some reason—thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) · 1975

★ 2.0

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

Gustave Flaubert

1857

★ 1.9

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

1919

★ 1.9

Though the great artists of the past could not change the course of history, it is only through their work that we are able to break bread with the dead, and without communion with the dead a fully human life is impossible.

1967

★ 1.9

The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and... He does it without destroying something else.

Paris Review · 1977

★ 1.9

Neither natural ability without instruction, nor instruction without natural ability, can make the perfect artist.

De Architectura · 70 BC

★ 1.3

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1867

★ 1.3

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

1935

★ 1.1