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An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

— Edgard Varese

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

— Martha Graham

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

— George Edward Moore

“No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.”

— Martha Graham

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

— Orson Welles

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

— Orson Welles

No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a…

— Francis Bacon

My definition of an artist is anyone who's ahead of his time and behind on his rent.

— Kinky Friedman

An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.

— John Thomas Sladek

I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.

— Anna Deavere Smith

A true artist is always out of his time.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

— John Elkann