Art Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

— Robin Gibb

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

— Andy Warhol

The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.

— George Bellows

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

— Roger Ballen

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

— Annie Dillard

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

— Patti Smith

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends…

— Paul Strand

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

— Tom Stoppard

An artist, if he is truly an artist, is only interested in one thing and that is to wake up the minds of men,…

— Marvin Gaye

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

— Seth Godin

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

— William Faulkner