Quotes on Artists Minds

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

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

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.

An artist is someone 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.