Art Quote by Marvin Gaye

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

— Joseph Conrad

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

— Tom Stoppard

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and…

— Marvin Gaye

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

— Robin Gibb

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed…

— Anonymous

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the…

— Charles Baudelaire

The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his…

— Marshall McLuhan

“An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how…

— Maxim Gorky

An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the superiorly searching…

— Morris Graves

To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.

— Akira Kurosawa

To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state…

— Robert Irwin

Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

— Ai Weiwei