Art Quote by Freeman Patterson

When you engage with people as an artist you know exactly what they feel and what they're thinking.

— Malik Yoba

“A writer is lost when he grows interested in such questions as 'what is art?' and 'what is an artist's duty?”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to…

— Merrill Brockway

When the motives of artists are profound, when they are at their work as a result of deep consideration, when they believe in the…

— Robert Henri

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

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we…

— Martin Firrell

Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them to define…

— Paul Strand

Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider…

— Brandon Boyd

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It keeps us honest.

— Lupita Nyong'o

The impact of a conscious artist is necessary, and it ripples through the world.

— Common

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

— Talib Kweli