All kinds Quote by David Hockney

Artists have to survive.

— Alex Scally

artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.

— Louise Bourgeois

It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!

— Paul Auster

We don't necessarily need so many artists. I recommend that many of the people who think they want to be artists should go into…

— Carolee Schneemann

Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we…

— Mohsin Hamid

I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will…

— Ben Whishaw

Not every person can be an artist: we need people to run stuff.

— Taika Waititi

Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?

— Mark Tobey

Artists have a tremendous purpose in society, which is to continually expose, to continually challenge and to never stop producing. To never stop creating,…

— Andrea Suarez Paz

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

— Brad Holland

The industry needs to be run by artists, because we are the only people that care about art.

— Nikki Sixx