Art Quote by Paul Simon

Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of…

— Jane Jacobs

Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever…

— William Saroyan

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

— Terry Gross

I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often…

— W. H. Auden

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

— Eric Gill

I have come to see that an artist is not given a form - a style - but his nature merely gives him the…

— Jack Shadbolt

Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.

— Tom Hiddleston

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds…

— Constantin Stanislavski

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical.…

— Willem de Kooning

An artist is generally expected to stick to one motif, one persona. People get used to seeing someone put down a certain thing.

— Ad-Rock

Being creative and emotional, artistes sometimes go through difficult phases in life, but one has to look at life as a bigger canvas. It's…

— Saswata Chatterjee

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and…

— Gerald Scarfe