Art Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually…

— Anonymous

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls…

— Thom Yorke

Whoever is in charge of the artist will always have the upper hand. They act like it's the artists' world, but it's the other…

— Sonny Sandoval

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

— Federico Fellini

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 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

Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.

— John Maeda

The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.

— John Ruskin

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason…

— Alma Gluck

Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in life, the…

— Sherwood Anderson

When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish.

— Susan Sontag