Art Quote by Jean Cocteau

“An artist cannot speak about his art anymore than a plant can discuss horticulture.”

— Jean Cocteau

“Watching gardeners label their plants I vow with all beings to practice the old horticulture and let plants identify me.”

— Robert Aitken

I think it's important that your work is in conversation with artists in your community.

— Daveed Diggs

Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.

— Craig Johnson

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas.

— Elizabeth Murray

Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk?

— Leos Carax

I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll…

— David Knopfler

“What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face. We must give standing to the new pioneers, the homecomers bent on…

— Wes Jackson

An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.

— Nancy Spero

I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects.

— Kehinde Wiley

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

— Henry Moore