• The artist must say it without saying it. (Duke Ellington)
• The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. (Novalis)
• Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. (Kahlil Gibran)
• Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
• I am an artist who, for forty years / Has stood at the lake edge / Throwing stones in the lake, / Sometimes, very faintly, / I hear a splash. (Maxwell Bates)
• There are certain aspects of being an artist which I won't accept, such as the insistence on the 'cult of personality'; I like to remain anonymous and just get on with it. I don't want my life to be the first you think about when you look at the pictures. (Zoe Benbow)
• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance, and this, not the external manner and detail is true reality. (Aristotle)
• The true artist is not interested in having a nice life, being comfy or fitting in, but rather sees himself as a benefactor. His goal is to make a contribution to life, and to this end there are no barriers, doors or blocks, but only wide open spaces. (Brian Simons)
• We artists are the first to see the light at the end of the chaotic tunnels we all live in, and we dare to move toward it. (Eleanor Blair)
• To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. (Robert Schumann)
• Artists are more able than most to perceive the world in all its wonder and glory, and more willing than most to give themselves over to the experience. (Marney Ward)
• The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's bidding. (John F. Carlson)
• The real gift that artists are given is not the technical skills that are learned and honed, but those moments of clarity when we connect with something only we are allowed to see. (Mary Lapos)
• So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear. (Diana Krall)
• What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing: you wouldn't be an artist if you didn't want to share an experience, a thought. (David Hockney)
• We need that metaphysical wizard, the Artist, in society to transmute what is commonplace and ordinary into a more meaningful and heightened human experience. (Alar Jurma)
• My job is to "see" the landscape for others – to absorb the spirit of the land – and then to communicate it to them. When the viewer feels something in response, I know I have succeeded. (Brent R. Laycock)
• As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood. (Paul Monette)
• To be an artist is to believe in life. (Henry Moore)
• If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. (Emile Zola)

For more interesting ART quotes, please see Robert Genn's website The Painter's Keys
http://quote.robertgenn.com/