Art Quote by Mohsin Hamid

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

— Jon Pareles

The industry needs to be run by artists, because we are the only people that care about art.

— Nikki Sixx

A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important…

— Hilary Rosen

I don’t think the shortage of artists has much to do with the innate ability to create or initiate. I think it has to…

— Seth Godin

Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison…

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is…

— David Gilmour

artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.

— Madeleine L'Engle

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

— Louise Bourgeois

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

Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

— Ai Weiwei