Art Quote by Ai Weiwei

I think the worst thing in the world is for artists to produce themselves.

— Leo Sayer

The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got…

— Aphex Twin

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

— Maynard James Keenan

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

— Paul Auster

Everybody's an artist. Unfortunately we don't treat them as such.

— Frank Gehry

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

— Nhat Hanh

People should stop thinking that an artist that controls what he does is a bad thing. A lot of artists today are just victims,…

— Daft Punk

I think people are intolerant of artists.

— David Chase

An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.

— W. Eugene Smith

So many artists try to be something that they're not.

— Johnny Van Zant

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

— Simon Callow

People become artists out of despair.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner