Actions Quote by Jim Carroll

No artist wants to be perceived as a regurgitator.

— Saul Bass

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Artists have no choice but to express their lives.

— Anne Truitt

It takes nothing to encourage an artist.

— Kevin Smith

An artist who doesn't have any audience is not an artist.

— Rokia Traore

No artist tolerates reality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.

— Mos Def

Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.

— Nelly

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

— Dan Simmons

Moralists have no place in an art gallery.

— Han Suyin

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

— Oscar Wilde

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

— Simon Callow