Art Quote by Jean-Georges Noverre

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

Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression…

— Cornel West

Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

— Arthur Cravan

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

— Guy de Maupassant

If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was…

— Tariq Ramadan

“The true artist is one who can evoke those raw emotions in their audience, bring them to their knees, and convey their message to…

— S.L. Jennings

Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions.

— Eric Maisel

All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.

— Michael Chekhov

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art.…

— Hans Hofmann

“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

“Any artist who fails to engage with society and the vulnerability of the individual in a cruel existence should not style him-or herself an…

— Lena Andersson

“Myself I cannot see the persistence of the artist type. I see no need for the individual man of genius in such an order.…

— Henry Miller