George Henry Lewes Quotes

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

So is fighting incompleteness the source of artistic neurosis? I doubt it. At most, this would apply to artists who deal with particular kinds of problems. I don't think we should think of Haydn or Mozart or Dickens or George Eliot in these terms.

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

You think you're an artist; prove it

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.