The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Michelangelo

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.

Berthold Auerbach

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

William Blake

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Robert Schumann

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

Paracelsus

To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them – that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

George Sand

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Vincent van Gogh

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

Walt Whitman

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

Clara Schumann

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein