Art Quote by Anonymous

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and…

— Marvin Gaye

There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about…

— Jenny Diski

“A writer who makes serious money is never taken seriously. Writers and artists are expected to suffer poverty and privation for their art; it’s…

— Jessica Zafra

Artists are those people who sit at the intersection between the known and unknown, the rational and irrational, coming to terms with some of…

— Kehinde Wiley

Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life...

— Robert Henri

Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of…

— Jon Pareles

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.”

— Oscar Wilde

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He…

— William Faulkner

“Part of what attracts us to artists is their otherness, their refusal to conform, their big middle finger stuck up in the face of…

— Jesse Kellerman

Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

— Haruki Murakami

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.

— Paul Robeson