Art Quote by Naomi Alderman

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

— Artie Shaw

It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is…

— Hector Berlioz

Every artist, writers included, have an ethics and an aesthetics, whether they can formulate them or not. I happen to think that it is…

— Aleksandar Hemon

You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.

— Cornelia Parker

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy…

— Andy Goldsworthy

I think that might just be how it works to be an artist: you have to pick yourself up and write something that you…

— Eva Victor

I just want to be written about as a normal artist

— Robert Mapplethorpe

The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.

— Lee Krasner

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't…

— David Hockney

I don't think you can prevent an artist from being and I don't think you can cause one to be. No one knows what…

— Robert Engman

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.

— Anna Pavlova

An artist should use freely whatever materials he pleases.

— Shozaburo Watanabe