An artist is only an artist thanks to his exquisite sense of beauty — a sense which provides him with intoxicating delights, but at the same time implying and including a sense, equally exquisite, of all deformity and disproportion.

Un artiste est par définition un homme habitué au rêve et qui vit parmi des fantômes.

I think to be an artist it means a certain sensitivity, because I believe in evolution. I believe the more sensitive you are the more you draw from this One Mind; which is part of the whole, part of everything. I think we all have that ability to be tuned in, but I think great artists are just more tuned in. One who's expressing God to the fullest, that's an artist.

The seeing of things as they really are — the seeing of a proportion veiled from other eyes (together with the power of expression), is what makes a man an artist. What makes him a great artist is a high fervour of spirit, which produces a superlative, instead of a comparative, clarity of vision.

To be an artist is to recognize the particular. To appreciate the peculiar. To allow a sense of play in your relationship to accepted standards. To ask the question “Why?” To be an artist is to risk admitting that much of what is money, property, and prestige strikes you as just a little silly.

A man with taste is the same as a woman with taste. Man invents his home, woman - her dress. Being an artist means having an individual, distinct from all other people's perception and concept of every single thing. Being an artist does not mean possessing a faculty of combining lines and paints, being artful in this or that sort of art, but having a world inside oneself and individual forms to express it.

An artist is an artist before they have ever produced a single thing. The production of something is not what makes a body an artist. It is the soul that makes an artist, the core of the psyche that fills the person, the creative fire inside a person that make them an artist. And if that person has the soul of an artist, that is they have the burning as each and every individual does, then they are an artist, they are entitled to the title artist, we are all entitled to the title artist before we have produced one single thing

Beauty is very much broader than just to the eye. It is our whole, positive response to life. An artist is fortunate in that his work is the inner contemplation of beauty, of perfection in life. We cannot make anything perfectly, but with inner contemplation of perfection, we can suggest it.

an artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself

Being an artist means to be continually asking, “How can it be better?” whatever it is. It may be your art, and it may be your life.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

Mesmo para aqueles dentre nós que ela fez artistas, foi por acaso, e apenas parcialmente, que ela levantou o véu. Apenas numa direção ela esqueceu de ligar a percepção à necessidade. E como cada direção corresponde ao que chamamos de sentido, é por um desses sentidos, e apenas por esse sentido, que o artista em geral se consagra à arte. Daí, na origem, a diversidade das artes. Daí também a especialidade das
predisposições. Um artista se aplicará às cores e às formas, e como ama a cor pela cor, a forma pela forma, como as percebe por elas e não para ele, é a vida interior das coisas que ele verá transparecer através de suas formas e cores. Ele fará a vida entrar aos poucos em nossa percepção a princípio confundida. Por um momento pelo menos ele nos desligará dos preconceitos de forma e cor que se interpunham entre nosso olho e a realidade. E realizará assim a mais alta ambição da arte, que é no caso a de nos revelar a natureza.

An artist is a socially unattractive person whom socially attractive people make money out of.