Art Quote by Junot Diaz

Because when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of her particular…

— Cheryl Strayed

“It’s up to the writer and the artist to give voice to these people. There are two impulses in art: one is rebellious and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

An artist must be open to both appreciation and criticism. It's a part of the learning process, or else there is no growth.

— Shankar Mahadevan

An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs…

— Christopher Fry

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

— Peter Clewes

I don't feel any real animosity towards critics when they write negative things. I think some are more perceptive than others. Some are very…

— Peter Doig

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

— Joni Mitchell

People expect artists to be too normal, I think. I've been around enough of them now to see that they're very extraordinary human beings…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound.…

— Plato

Oftentimes, the way it seems to be is that our artists in particular point themselves out as spokesmen for a certain constituency in a…

— Gil Scott-Heron

Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.

— Massimiliano Gioni

Too often, if you look back through the history of representation and you take the work of African-American artists, the work is on such…

— Kerry James Marshall