Art Quote by David Bowie

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make…

— David Bowie

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way

— David Hockney

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

— Oscar Wilde

No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a…

— Francis Bacon

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

— Paul Valery

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

— H. G. Wells

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

— Orson Welles

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

— Anne Sexton

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

— Ned Rorem

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

— Anonymous

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

— Novalis