Art Quote by Eric Hoffer

Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with…

— Walter J. Phillips

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

— Toni Cade Bambara

The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.

— Diego Rivera

“This highest kind of truth is never something the artist takes as given. It's not his point of departure but his goal. Though the…

— John Gardner

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not…

— Henry Miller

It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.

— Bridget Riley

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of thereformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker…

— Anonymous

The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.

— Pablo Picasso

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

— Toni Cade Bambara

“No genuine artist views himself as superior in essence to others.”

— Laurence G. Boldt

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction , a blessed unrest that…

— Martha Graham