Architect Quote by M. C. Escher

Almost all European are before the Renaissance was created by people for whom the notion of art did not exist.

— Anonymous

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something, and those…

— Marcel Duchamp

There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.

— Ernst Gombrich

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

— Tom Stoppard

I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in science; and…

— Patti Smith

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

— Eric Gill

There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying…

— John Lennon

The definition of art has changed almost every day since the first artist created the first work at least fifty thousand years ago...

— Thomas Hoving

My mother really didn't come from artists. Her famous quote to me was, "The only artists I've ever heard of are dead." The pottery…

— Glenn Ligon

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

— Harold Rosenberg

But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those…

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away…

— Richard Price