Art Quote by Margaret Atwood

The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with…

— Margaret Atwood

“Pipes are not to be used for teaching, nor any artificial instruments, as the harp, or the like: but whatsoever will make the hearers…

— St. Thomas Aquinas

[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers.…

— Gustave Flaubert

“New Rule: Stop calling bagpipes a musical instrument. They're actually a Scottish Breathalyzer test. You blow into one end, and if the sound that…

— Bill Maher

“What can an artist use but materials, such as they are? What can he light but the short string of his gut, and when…

— Annie Dillard

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

It's the job of the artist to take something that everybody thinks they know about, they've made a decision about, they will be immovable…

— Phyllida Lloyd

Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists…

— Susan Sontag

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

— Ira Sachs

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean.

— Austin Kleon

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

— Heinrich Böll

“Art is like a kite with an airplane propeller, OK? Artists are like people who have scuba tanks for lungs, OK? And critics are…

— Jarod Kintz