Art Quote by Jon Pareles

Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.

— Robert Genn

Artists are those people who sit at the intersection between the known and unknown, the rational and irrational, coming to terms with some of…

— Kehinde Wiley

Back in the day, artists could be mysterious. Now, people want to know and hear everything about you. They want to see and feel…

— Kandi Burruss

People who are artists professionally are not artists because they want to be artists; they have to be artists. They're compelled to get that…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and…

— Marvin Gaye

So many artists try to be something that they're not.

— Johnny Van Zant

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

— Paul Auster

Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Artists have a tremendous purpose in society, which is to continually expose, to continually challenge and to never stop producing. To never stop creating,…

— Andrea Suarez Paz

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is…

— Anna Deavere Smith

Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we…

— Mohsin Hamid

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you…

— David Bowie