The work praises the artist. [ German Proverb ]

Every artist was first an amateur. [ Emerson ]

It was Homer who gave laws to the artist. [ Francis Wayland ]

An artist should have more than two eyes. [ Lamartine ]

The true artist can only labor con amore. [ Victor Hugo ]

The great artist is the slave of his ideal. [ Bovee ]

Knowledge, without practice, makes but half an artist. [ Proverb ]

Dead he is not, but departed - for the artist never dies. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. [ Novalis ]

Criticism should be written for the public, not the artist. [ Wm. Winter ]

A man may be an artist though he have not his tools about him. [ Proverb ]

An artist should be fit for the best society, and keep out of it. [ Ruskin ]

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur. [ Disraeli ]

Woman is a delightful musical instrument, of which love is the bow, and man the artist. [ Stendhal ]

We first truly praise an artist when the merit of his work is such as to make us forget himself. [ Lessing ]

A true artist should put a generous deceit on the spectators, and effect the noblest designs by easy methods. [ Burke ]

He is the greatest artist who has embodied in the sum of his works the greatest number of the greatest ideas. [ John Ruskin ]

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate. [ Stedman ]

No artist-work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child. [ Charlotte Cushman ]

The better a man is morally, the less conscious he is of his virtues. The greater the artist, the more aware he must be of his shortcomings. [ Froude ]

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable. [ Blackie ]

It is as absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music. [ Balzac ]

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose [ James A. Garfield ]

Oh! why is daily bread indispensable to the poet and to the artist! This inexorable necessity darkens for them the joys of nature and the radiations of the beautiful. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]

Eccentricity is not a proof of genius, and even an artist should remember that originality consists not only in doing things differently, but also in doing things better. [ Stedman ]

Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ever lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return. [ Hillard ]

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. Ah! the world, that cruel step-mother, beats the poor child the harder to make him shed more pearls. [ Heinrich Heine ]

The painter who is content with the praise of the world in respect to what does not satisfy himself is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic. [ Washington Allston ]

An artist that works in marble or colors has them all to himself and his tribe: but the man who moulds his thoughts in verse has to employ the materials vulgarized by everybody's use, and glorify them by his handling. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion. [ Goethe ]

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life; although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist. [ Beethoven ]

The one thing that marks the true artist is a clear perception and a firm, bold hand, in distinction from that imperfect mental vision and uncertain touch which give us the feeble pictures and the lumpy statues of the mere artisans on canvas or in stone. [ O. W. Holmes ]

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. Labor, he in effect said, is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art. Turning then to another - And you, I inquired, what do you consider as the great force in art? Love, he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth. [ Bovee ]

The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late. [ Goethe ]

Those critics who, in modern times, have the most thoughtfully analyzed the laws of aesthetic beauty concur in maintaining that the real truthfulness of all works of imagination - sculpture, painting, written fiction - is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent the positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

He must have an artist's eye for color and form who can arrange a hundred flowers as tastefully, in any other way, as by strolling through a garden, and picking here one and there one, and adding them to the bouquet in the accidental order in which they chance to come. Thus we see every summer day the fair lady coming in from the breezy side hill with gorgeous colors and most witching effects. If only she could be changed to alabaster, was ever a finer show of flowers in so fine a vase? But instead of allowing the flowers to remain as they were gathered, they are laid upon the table, divided, rearranged on some principle of taste, I know not what, but never again have that charming naturalness and grace which they first had. [ Beecher ]