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The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

— Gustave Flaubert

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

— Gustave Flaubert

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

— Lady Bird Johnson

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.

— William Morris Hunt

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

— Albrecht Durer

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

— Anna Katharine Green

An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. The artist - and the writer - reshapes reality so that it becomes even more vivid and lasting.

— David Ebershoff

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

✗Opposing Perspectives

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

— William Blake

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

— Patti Smith