Top 37 Master Artist Quotes
#1. Over time, jealousy becomes an element as indispensable as paint in the life of the master artist.
Orhan Pamuk
#2. The things of nature are the Lord's silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of the love of God and declare the wisdom of the great Master Artist.
Ellen G. White
#3. Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life.
John Edgar Park
#4. The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.
Rabindranath Tagore
#5. No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery.
Orison Swett Marden
#6. Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.
Robert Townsend
#7. As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
Robert Genn
#8. A master's (an artist's) Modus Vivendi is to guide his creative self on the path of generating ideas, in a synergistic work resonating with the client's needs and Universe inspiration.
VIRGIL PROFEANU
#10. The much-lauded visual artist Roni Horn got her Master's in Sculpture from Yale in the Seventies, but in the course of her career she has moved, among other media, from watercolors to photographs to floor-sized installations and mats of poured gold.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#11. As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free ... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival.
Mark Kostabi
#12. It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.
Carolina Kostner
#13. Online, everyone - the artist and the curator, the master and the apprentice, the expert and the amateur - has the ability to contribute something.
Austin Kleon
#14. An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
Auguste Renoir
#15. For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium; there are no previous masters to surpass; and after a few weeks, you are the master. Try that with the violin.
Stewart Brand
#16. Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.
Ilya Ehrenburg
#17. The artist has the master picture in his mind, before he begins to paint.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#18. The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.
Oscar Wilde
#19. As an artist, my talents are not mine alone to just keep. My creations have to touch lives, spread love and let my skills be used only in good things but should be selfless not through selfish motives. In this manner, I am giving the gift back to my Master Creator. - Elizabeth's Quotes
Elizabeth E. Castillo
#20. Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.
Alfred Sisley
#21. We, as spiritual beings, created the physical world as a place to learn. It's our school, our playground, our artist's studio. I beleive that we're here to master the process of creation - to learn how to consciously channel the creative energy of spirit into physical form.
Shakti Gawain
#23. We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.
Jeffrey Deitch
#24. People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'
Mitchel Musso
#25. The aim and end of the artist is not truth exactly, much less fact; it is effect ... There is no doubt he [the photographer] best gets his effect by way of truth, but he uses it as he would a servant, not a master.
Henry Peach Robinson
#26. If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist or a musician of some sort you know if you give a jazz musician ...
Sheena Iyengar
#27. An artist's job is to inspire, from the Latin inspirare: to breathe into. The primary function of art is to inspire new thought shaped by emotions using the creative mediums we master - be it painting, music, design, craft, or photography.
Anonymous
#28. The creative mind can turn chaos into a master piece and call it Art.
Nikki Rowe
#29. It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.
Orison Swett Marden
#30. Master Alfred de Musset says great artists have no country. They have also no world! They belong to the space, to the universe, to anything infinite!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#31. I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.
Erykah Badu
#32. Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.
Multatuli
#33. To cherish perfection is to commit creative suicide, and every true artist knows that a masterpiece is an accident that should be burned.
Barry Hughart
#34. I cannot now think symbols less
than the greatest of all powers whether they are used consciously by
the master of magic or half unconsciously by their successors, the
poet, the musician, and the artist.
W.B.Yeats
#35. This is the second Old Master I have encountered that has the signatures of another artist forged over it. A painting that has been created by another artist entirely. It's like they played mix and match.
Dayna S. Rubin
#36. A man must be master of himself and master of his word to achieve the full realization of himself as an artist.
Robert Henri
#37. I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.
Kalup Linzy
