Art Quote by Jane Urquhart

As I have always said, an artist's existence and identity are only because of the audience.

— Rubina Dilaik

Paul Robeson once said that the artist has the responsibility to either help liberate the community or further oppress it. And I think that…

— Gil Scott-Heron

The Greeks said the artist doesn't actually have to travel and look around. You stay where God has put you, and you dig as…

— Gian Carlo Menotti

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

— Jack Kerouac

I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul

— Robert Henri

“You have on your history," said the artist, "and we're not used to that, believe me. Not to history. Not to old she-wolves with…

— Joanna Russ

In Afghanistan I was doing street art because it was more open, but when I had a show, only men would come. I said,…

— Malina Suliman

All one wants to do is make a small, finished, polished, burnished, beautiful object . . . I mean, that's all one wants to…

— John Banville

“My father said being an artist is the shortest road to the poor house , claiming "real" work is something you don't like. I…

— Russell Chatham

“Three erotic paintings by Isa - $ 20K; chasing said artist in Benz SLS Coupe - $ 195K; the look on her face right…

— Ella Dominguez

Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult…

— Peter Schjeldahl

There's a lot of money to be made by strip-mining and drilling the dirtiest oil on the planet. But why should the rest of…

— Robert Redford

The investment in our mining industry has been very positive for Australia but we need to be doing more if we want, as I…

— Gina Rinehart

My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep…

— Alexander Agassiz

In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were…

— Billy Bragg