Art Quote by Kevin Macdonald

Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know…

— Rokia Traore

As an artist, you're just observing the world around you. So much is overwhelming and it's all so inescapable that it can't all speak…

— Laura Jane Grace

...why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's…

— Roger Waters

The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they are alive…

— Yasumasa Morimura

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to…

— Constantin Brancusi

People become artists out of despair.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

— Salvador Dali

Sometimes artists die young, and we don't know exactly why. I think that, in life, you have these special individuals, whether it's Jimi Hendrix…

— Robert Trujillo

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

— Paul Auster

I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause for a lot of bad…

— Billy Porter

Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression…

— Cornel West

Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.

— Marilynne Robinson