Top 41 Artist Sees Quotes
#1. An artist sees not only the thing, but he also hears its inner voice.
Debasish Mridha
#3. Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
Desmond Tutu
#6. The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.
Piet Mondrian
#7. A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#8. A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees. They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.
Jacob Epstein
#9. There are things the artist intends, and things the viewer sees, and what the viewer sees isn't always what the artist intends. Isn't always apparent upon first viewing.
Julie Anne Long
#10. The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the aesthetic reality within the actual reality. (On photographs by Helen Levitt)
James Agee
#12. I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them.
Jerry Saltz
#13. The eye sees everything upside down," the artist explained, "and then the brain automatically reverses it. I'm just trying to put it back the way the mind sees it." Alvis
Jess Walter
#14. Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But ... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences, finally molds something distinctly personnel.
Romare Bearden
#15. When I got signed as a songwriter, I immediately thought, 'Oh, no one sees me as an artist because I don't look good enough.' So I shut down the whole idea.
Meghan Trainor
#16. Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.
Paul Rand
#17. Artist: An art lover who sees a hole in the art they love and seeks to fill it.
Victor A. Davis
#18. To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him.
C.S. Lewis
#19. The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes
Alexej Von Jawlensky
#20. No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
#21. The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.
Flannery O'Connor
#22. The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature ... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.
Susanne Katherina Langer
#23. The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
Wallace Stevens
#24. The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands some deviation from form and line. Just how far this may go depends on the viewpoint of each painter.
Edgar Alwin Payne
#25. I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.
Julia Child
#26. It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings.
Franklin Carmichael
#27. If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.
James Whistler
#28. The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present his understanding of it. Censorship in his case has perpetrated heavy and sometimes reprehensible blunders.
Hollis Alpert
#29. If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be a human being may a very messy thing, but to be an artist is something else entirely, because art is religion, art is sex, art is society. Art is everything.
Lucas Samaras
#30. The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
Raymond Chandler
#31. At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.
Alberto Giacometti
#32. The artist labors while he may, But finds at best too brief the day; And, tho' his works outlast the time And nation that they make sublime, He feels and sees that Nature knows Nothing of time in what she does, But has a leisure infinite Wherein to do her work aright.
Henry Abbey
#33. The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.
Edgar Degas
#34. The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#35. An artist must paint not simply surface light but what is inside, what he sees within his subject
Frank Wynne
#36. It's tough as an artist to have such a specific vision for your video in mind when you write a song. Reaching out to directors is like going on blind dates and trying to find someone who sees the exact vision behind your music, which can be really difficult.
Hayley Kiyoko
#37. The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#38. As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
Andre Malraux
#39. The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, without retouching. Yet the word used for this unqualifying affection is 'cynicism'.
Dawn Powell
#40. Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.
Marge Piercy
#41. An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.
Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
