Art Quote by Eric Maisel

“Writing, as most art, is considered to be essentially superfluous. Who is an artist before a surgeon? Or a scientist? But the fact that…

— Rainer J. Hanshe

Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.

— Walter Becker

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the…

— Diego Rivera

Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short…

— Hilaire Belloc

Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

— Arthur Cravan

I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible…

— Keith Haring

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who…

— Virginia Woolf

One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.

— Eugene Delacroix

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

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

— Laurence G. Boldt

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects.…

— Chinua Achebe