Art Quote by Maxim Gorky

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

“An artist is a bloke who can hold two fundamentally opposing views and still function:”

— John le Carré

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

— Seth Godin

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can…

— Al Jourgensen

An artist, if he is truly an artist, is only interested in one thing and that is to wake up the minds of men,…

— Marvin Gaye

“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not…

— Chaim Potok

“No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his personality. He expresses his personality indirectly through concentrating upon a task which…

— T.S. Eliot

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

— Amy Lowell

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He…

— William Faulkner

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

“No genuine artist views himself as superior in essence to others.”

— Laurence G. Boldt

The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends…

— Paul Strand