Being Quote by Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

— Alan Moore

When people try questioning my artistry or what it is that I do, it's because it doesn't look like everybody else's art.

— The-Dream

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

— Yann Martel

Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she rocked my…

— Steve Almond

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.

— Pharrell Williams

Do you think you can love too much? Or experience too much beauty, at the cost of too much pain? Do you think when…

— Paul Dalio

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

— Barry Hannah

The social aspect of being an artist has always made me uncomfortable.

— Charles Ray

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

— Clive Bell

To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention,

— Dorothea Lange

Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art…

— Maggie Nelson

I am always rethinking how art is perceived and received, questioning our relationship to art. That's always been a constant.

— Rirkrit Tiravanija