Art Quote by Mike Bartlett

“Creative people, especially those who are just starting out, feel that they have to conform and be a mass-produced product in order to be…

— Veronika Carnaby

For me, that's one of the best validations as an artist. To have a stranger come up to you and say that something you've…

— Sarah McLachlan

How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we…

— Martin Firrell

How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so, at a…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

All my work is created from personal experiences. My hope is always that others will see it as a gateway, develop their own message…

— Sanford Biggers

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.

— Paddy Mitchell

“Ask anybody doing truly creative work, and they’ll tell you the truth: They don’t know where the good stuff comes from. They just show…

— Austin Kleon

“If you have a painting in you, paint. If you have a song to sing, sing. Don’t judge your creation. Just create it. Banish…

— Toni Sorenson

There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological reaction. And…

— Jeff Koons

One of the chief motives of artistic creation is certainly the need of feeling that we are essential in relationship to the world.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than…

— E. J. Hughes

“It is as well that the world knows only a fine piece of work and not also its origins, the conditions under which it…

— Thomas Mann