Art Quote by Maya Lin

I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.

— Kate Bush

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the…

— M. C. Escher

Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of…

— Jon Pareles

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

— Donald Woods Winnicott

Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

— Haruki Murakami

I think artists are interested in what people think of them.

— Logic

When you engage with people as an artist you know exactly what they feel and what they're thinking.

— Malik Yoba

Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assurance…

— Peter Schjeldahl

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

— Joni Mitchell

I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects.

— Kehinde Wiley

Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.

— Massimiliano Gioni

...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to…

— Peter Block