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John Ruskin (1819-1900), British poet, artist, · Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891

Every artist was first an amateur. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. – Leo Buscaglia
The artist is a recepticle for the 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. – Pablo Picasso
What an artist the world is losing in me – Nero Claudius Caesar
A great artist is always before his time or behind it. – George Moore
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future. – Henry M. Wriston
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be. – Abraham Maslow
A true artist doesn't change with the times. A true artist is already way ahead of the times. – Eric Pio
A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality. – Radiquet
An artist cannot do anything slovenly. – Jane Austen, Letter to Cassandra, 25 November 1798
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one. – Charles Horton Cooley
An artist does not fake reality--he stylizes it. – Ayn Rand, From the article "Art and Sense of Life" in The Romantic Manifesto
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. – George Santayana
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. – Charles Bukowski
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. – Saul Bellow
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes. – Kahlil Gibran
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. – Andre Gide
Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. – Andr Gide
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. – Leo Tolstoy
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies. – Romare Beardon
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. – don Miguel Ruiz
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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