Art Quote by Brian Aldiss

When you break an artist, you learn a lot.

— Scott Borchetta

Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only…

— Frank Stella

“An artist's role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.”

— James Baldwin

I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

— Kate Bush

That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.

— Miranda July

“Our first job as artists, then, is to venture out, away from what we think we know in search of the new and unexplored.…

— Jeff Goins

What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal.

— Gregory Crewdson

I think it's artist's role to give and to receive and the people to give it, hear it, vibe on it, and give it…

— Narada Michael Walden

I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to…

— Tavares Strachan

The artist, who must venture into the studio and risk there, and then venture into the marketplace and risk again, is obliged to learn…

— Eric Maisel

I think it's the duty of the artist to run away from home. I mean I think you have to go far afield to…

— Sean Mathias

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

— Ira Sachs