Art Quote by David Hockney

“Artists, real artists, have to work. They can’t be hedonists. Really good painters are always working. The world is such a marvelous place. You…

— David Hockney

I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.

— Andrew Levitas

An artist, if he is truly an artist, is only interested in one thing and that is to wake up the minds of men,…

— Marvin Gaye

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

— Tom Stoppard

Being an artist is a lifestyle.

— Wayne White

What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen…

— Pablo Picasso

What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?

— William Morris

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

— Marianne Moore

If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be a human…

— Lucas Samaras

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

— Robin Gibb

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art

— Lee Simonson

An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art.

— Peter Frampton