Creating Quote by Ali Shaheed Muhammad

When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you have to…

— Rokia Traore

If somebody else wants to think it's artistic, well, that's fine. But to me, it's my job. I'm supposed to do it well. If…

— Ken Wahl

I'm glad to say I'm experiencing more of a conversation in my artistic workforce world than I ever have before. But it's a job,…

— Jessie Mueller

The idea of the culture that you live in determining meaning in your art, though, is a very important aspect of what art would…

— Robert Barry

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

— Larry Wall

What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.

— Paddy Mitchell

As artists, we do our best to create things that say something and are powerful.

— Michele Lamy

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes…

— Romare Bearden

I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.

— Kehinde Wiley

The act of saying what you do helps shape you as an artist.

— Lynn Nottage

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of…

— Brian Eno