Artists Heart Quotes

“He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.”
― Roman Payne

“It’s plain to see that the romance has slightly slipped from the Bohemian lifestyle. But we’re literary Gypsies, all of us, and it’s only recently that we’re starting to realise we’re not alone. The Internet is connecting all the healers and storytellers, the wild people and mystics, the writers and painters, and the ones who are slightly cracked.

I’ve always loved wild people.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“Obedience is an unpopular word nowadays, but the artist must be obedient to the work, whether it be a symphony, a painting, or a story for a small child. I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am, Enflesh me. Give birth to me." And the artist either says, "My soul doth magnify the Lord," and willingly becomes the bearer of the work, or refuses; but the obedient response is not necessarily a conscious one, and not everyone has the humble, courageous obedience of Mary.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“We poets always have uneasy hearts, because our hearts, large rounded as the globe can turn but one side to the sun at once. We are used to dip our artist-hands in gall and potash, trying potentialities of alternated colours, till at last we get confused and wonder for our skin, how nature tinged it first.”
― Aurora Leigh