Art Quote by Anonymous

The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.

— Aleister Crowley

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

— Maya Angelou

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on…

— Alexander Smith

In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man;…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing which one…

— Pat Steir

Every human being is an artist

— Joseph Beuys

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must…

— Paul Cezanne

“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

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

— Allan Bloom

Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the…

— Jerry Saltz

An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.

— Peter Handke

If we investigate the vague feelings of the average man towards the arts, we find that he is timid and that he has developed…

— Walter Gropius