Art Quote by Pablo Picasso

It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.

— Pablo Picasso

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

— Pablo Picasso

Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work…

— Marcel Duchamp

When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over…

— Pablo Picasso

There's nothing wrong with pitch counts. But not when it's spit out by a computer, and the computer does not look at an individual's…

— Tom Seaver

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.

— Michelangelo

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

— Ad Reinhardt

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings…

— Honore de Balzac

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make…

— David Bowie

In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

— Junot Diaz

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

— Burton Raffel

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on…

— Seth Godin