"The artist must be ecstatic about something." ~ Ted "Papa" Shawn
A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament. ~ Emilé Zola
All art requires courage. ~ Anne Tucker
Everybody’s an art critic. ~ Judith Martin
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for a better understanding. ~ Robert Henri, Art Spirit
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh. ~ John Singer Sargent
An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes. ~ Anton Chekhov
The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going. ~ Caitlin Thomas
The artist must / create himself or be born again. ~ Denise Levertov
What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see. ~ Edith Sitwell
Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it. ~ Joanna Russ