Art Quote by Mary Button Durell

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

“Our first job as artists, then, is to venture out, away from what we think we know in search of the new and unexplored.…

— Jeff Goins

Artists have a tremendous purpose in society, which is to continually expose, to continually challenge and to never stop producing. To never stop creating,…

— Andrea Suarez Paz

“We think that all artists create their art for essentially the same reason—they have a view of the world that they want to share…

— Ken Hicks

“Artist paint images unseen, musicians create sounds that emerge from silence, and authors write from a synthetic point of view about a world that…

— Carl Henegan

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.”

— Oscar Wilde

Artists make worlds for people to walk through.

— Patricia Piccinini

Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part in the…

— Paul Auster

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is…

— Anna Deavere Smith

There's certain artists that are meant to have certain paths and go the way of the corporate world. And then there are artists who…

— Fantastic Negrito

Artists are those people who sit at the intersection between the known and unknown, the rational and irrational, coming to terms with some of…

— Kehinde Wiley

It's the obvious thing to say but artists want to be able to tell all kinds of stories and tear down every kind of…

— Christian Slater