Art Quote by Cheryl Strayed

As I have always said, an artist's existence and identity are only because of the audience.

— Rubina Dilaik

We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the…

— Eleanor Catton

As an artist, you're just observing the world around you. So much is overwhelming and it's all so inescapable that it can't all speak…

— Laura Jane Grace

The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.

— Whitney Chadwick

My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have your own…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.

— Yoko Ono

Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.

— Nhat Hanh

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

It's easy to attack an artist as misogynist, but that's really such a facile epithet. And if an artist is constantly worrying about how…

— Lisa Yuskavage

I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause for a lot of bad…

— Billy Porter

Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.

— Massimiliano Gioni