Art Quote by Cate Blanchett

Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will…

— Sol LeWitt

I think you just have to cross your fingers that there's enough artists out there that keep producing interesting work, and eventually it will…

— Geddy Lee

One reason for making and exhibiting a work is to induce a reaction or change in the viewer.... In this sense, the work as…

— Adrian Piper

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over,…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I think it's what any artist would want: to feel like their work can be taken in on a level of experience beyond the…

— David Salle

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy…

— Andy Goldsworthy

When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists,…

— William Morris Hunt

The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not about the object, and…

— Jeff Koons

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 see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior…

— Jerry Saltz

An artist is generally expected to stick to one motif, one persona. People get used to seeing someone put down a certain thing.

— Ad-Rock

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how…

— Amiri Baraka