Art Quote by Anselm Kiefer

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in…

— Henry Miller

The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his…

— Marshall McLuhan

The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his…

— William Morris Hunt

The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.

— Herbert Read

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.

— Roy DeCarava

The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on…

— Henri Matisse

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and…

— Gerald Scarfe

The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends…

— Paul Strand

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He…

— Robert Henri

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected -…

— Saul Steinberg

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive…

— Patti Smith

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

— Robert Rauschenberg