Art Quote by Al Pacino

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

— Anonymous

As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.

— Gavin Rossdale

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

— Piet Mondrian

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

— Orson Welles

When someone really respects and admires us as musicians to the extent that they want to work with us, it's really flattering.

— Laura Smith

It's personalities, it's conflict, it's all of these things that actually make performers interesting.

— Simon Cowell

...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to…

— Peter Block

I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a…

— Olafur Eliasson

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he…

— Giuseppe Verdi

You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced with the…

— Amanda Palmer

I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.

— Marcel Duchamp

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

— Madeleine L'Engle