Art Quote by Jodi Picoult

There is a strong feeling in the Middle West that the artist is not pulling his own weight no matter how hard he may…

— Kurt Vonnegut

This longing for knowledge makes the real artist brave. He never adheres to the first image that appears to him, because he knows that…

— Michael Chekhov

I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.

— Marcel Duchamp

That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always…

— Kate Bush

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers,…

— Henry Rollins

It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent…

— James A. Baldwin

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are…

— Edith Head

Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique.

— Dziga Vertov

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he…

— Giuseppe Verdi

It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to…

— Dan Colen

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

— Chaim Potok

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this

— Steve Albini