Art Quote by Arno Hintjens

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision,…

— Carine Roitfeld

In a way, artists are shamans, facilitators who take what's there, channel it through themselves, then put it out there for people to appreciate.

— Julie Taymor

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls…

— Thom Yorke

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

— Yoko Ono

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some…

— Anne Roiphe

Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

— Alice Walker

Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Most artists I know have gone through some period that forces them to get to the very core of who they are.

— Melody Gardot

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is…

— Anna Deavere Smith

If you're an artist, you do what you do, and in a way, you don't even control the core essence of what you do.…

— Paul Banks

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

— Donald Woods Winnicott