The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions. Saul Steinberg
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business. John Berryman
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. Henry David Thoreau
The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.
Georg Baselitz
The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does. Georg Baselitz
The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do. Carlisle Floyd
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. Auguste Rodin
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process. Arthur Erickson
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. Auguste Rodin
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. Cyril Connolly
