Top Artist Quotes
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
Jackson Pollock
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
Montgomery Clift 
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An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.
Norman Reilly Raine
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I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.
Glenn Frey
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The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
Wassily Kandinsky
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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
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy
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