Art Quote by John Updike

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

— Stephen Stills

Sometimes as an artist you don't want to be an entertainer. You want to offend people and inspire them and that's not always entertainment.

— Lacey Sturm

It's the role of the artist to pursue content

— Anish Kapoor

“Part of what attracts us to artists is their otherness, their refusal to conform, their big middle finger stuck up in the face of…

— Jesse Kellerman

“Because most artists have not told us of their intentions, and beacause those artists ( and patrons or agents) who have stated their intentions…

— Sylvan Barnet

Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an…

— Eric Fischl

It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to…

— Stephanie Mills

“No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist…

— Oscar Wilde

“I refused, and still refuse, the inflated definition of artists as special people with special prerogatives and special excuses.”

— Anne Truitt

“The work of art always requires us to adapt to it—and in this manner can be distinguished from escapism or shallow entertainment, which instead…

— Ted Gioia

Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes all murmuring,…

— Joseph Addison

If people respect us as artists, they know we'll give them something different every time; they know we're pushing ourselves.

— M. Shadows