Art Quote by Mike Svob

Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.

— Robert Genn

Artists have to be represented properly and paid properly.

— Jimmy Iovine

People who are artists professionally are not artists because they want to be artists; they have to be artists. They're compelled to get that…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring…

— Freeman Patterson

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be…

— Nick Cave

You only have to talk to artists to see that they work according to rules, and that they know all too well that they…

— Frederick C. Beiser

Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.

— Faith Sullivan

Artists who say that they're artists: usually people who need a job.

— Doug Stanhope

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something…

— Starsmith

Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

— A. Y. Jackson

Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.

— Louise Bourgeois

Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild…

— Walter Gropius