Art Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr

If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

— Francisco Goya

Be an artist. Don't say it, do it.

— Will Gompertz

Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and you try…

— Nelly

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

— Claire Bloom

Make your life your art. It doesn't have to be that you're an artist. I know I talk about art a lot, but I…

— Gerard Way

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

— Robert Fripp

Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing.

— Sarita Choudhury

If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house…

— Frederic Chopin

I want to be the sort of artist that uplifts people.

— Griff

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade

— Anish Kapoor