Art Quote by Martha Graham

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

— Anonymous

An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

— Edgard Varese

“No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.”

— Martha Graham

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

— George Edward Moore

An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.

— Orson Welles

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

— Orson Welles

I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.

— Anna Deavere Smith

A true artist is always out of his time.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.

— Marina Abramovic

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

— Nina Simone

A Good artist has less time than ideas.

— Martin Kippenberger

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

— John Elkann