Art Quote by Charles Bukowski

“They think I am glass,” she says. She’s hard again. “But I am not. I am not delicate. I am stone. If they want…

— Anonymous

“We are not here to play, to dream, to drift,” he says to it. “We have hard work to do, and loads to lift.”

— Margaret Atwood

I know, I say, after he says, This is hard, for the third time. This is what happens when you have a TRM, I…

— Kathryn Erskine

The most inspiring thing as an artist is when someone says, 'I believe in you'; sometimes that works even better than Grammys.

— Kristian Bush

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

— LeRoy Neiman

“If the work comes to the artist and says, 'Here I am, serve me,' then the job of the artist, great or small, is…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Inspiration,' the false artist says, 'it just comes to me.' And it shows. His pictures are as like as the four walls of his…

— Kurt Schwitters

Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll…

— Kapil Sharma

A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.

— Rembrandt

I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience. The artist says, 'I will make that event happen again, altering…

— Rebecca West

Anything is art if an artist says it is.

— Marcel Duchamp

There's no need to believe what an artist says. Believe what he does; that's what counts.

— David Hockney

“The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female) should be…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“I ought to have awe­some core strength, you know, because this bal­anc­ing thing is hard work.”

— Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali