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2. “An artist has no need to express his mind directly in his work for it to express the quality of that mind; it has indeed been said that the highest praise of God consists in the denial of Him by the atheist, who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.”
Marcel Proust
Artist, Mind, Work Expression, God Denial, Creation Perfection, Indirect Praise
3. “I have every useless thing in the world in my house there. The only thing wanting is the necessary thing, a great patch of open sky like this. Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life, little boy,” he added, turning to me. “You have a soul in you of rare quality, an artist’s nature; never let it starve for lack of what it needs.” Marcel Proust Useless, Necessary, Soul, Artist, Open Sky, Inner Fulfillment
9. “I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them.” William Butler Yeats Artist’s Vision, Ireland’s Face, Significant Beauty, Artist, Ireland, Vision
14. “An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.” Charles Baudelaire Exquisite Artist, Beauty And Deformity, Intoxicating Pleasures, Artist, Beauty, Deformity
19. “The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.” Henry Miller Artist, Individualism, Creativity, Politics, Idealism, Expression
20. “I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.” Henry Miller Restless Artist, Unattainable Love, Endless Search, Artist, Love, Search
21. “America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life than a creative writer, painter or musician. To be a rabbit is better still.” Henry Miller Artist Struggles, Economic Misfit, Social Liability, Artist, Struggles, Misfit
25. “The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.” Albert Camus Artist’s Role, Beauty Community, Understanding Obligation, Artist, Beauty, Community
Artist Quotes by Famous Authors
2. “An artist has no need to express his mind directly in his work for it to express the quality of that mind; it has indeed been said that the highest praise of God consists in the denial of Him by the atheist, who finds creation so perfect that it can dispense with a creator.”
Marcel Proust Artist, Mind, Work Expression, God Denial, Creation Perfection, Indirect Praise
3. “I have every useless thing in the world in my house there. The only thing wanting is the necessary thing, a great patch of open sky like this. Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life, little boy,” he added, turning to me. “You have a soul in you of rare quality, an artist’s nature; never let it starve for lack of what it needs.”
Marcel Proust Useless, Necessary, Soul, Artist, Open Sky, Inner Fulfillment
9. “I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them.”
William Butler Yeats Artist’s Vision, Ireland’s Face, Significant Beauty, Artist, Ireland, Vision
14. “An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.”
Charles Baudelaire Exquisite Artist, Beauty And Deformity, Intoxicating Pleasures, Artist, Beauty, Deformity
19. “The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.”
Henry Miller Artist, Individualism, Creativity, Politics, Idealism, Expression
20. “I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.”
Henry Miller Restless Artist, Unattainable Love, Endless Search, Artist, Love, Search
21. “America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life than a creative writer, painter or musician. To be a rabbit is better still.”
Henry Miller Artist Struggles, Economic Misfit, Social Liability, Artist, Struggles, Misfit
25. “The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.”
Albert Camus Artist’s Role, Beauty Community, Understanding Obligation, Artist, Beauty, Community
