Art Quote by Peter Ackroyd

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the…

— M. C. Escher

Many contemporary painters feel that their landscapes come from within and are brought to the surface and given form as a result of various…

— Edward Betts

I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates messages and…

— David Walker

I think that the first responsibility of an artist is to follow truth, and the innate original forces and energies that are within them.…

— Tony Shafrazi

Part of the artist's journey is fulfilling your own personal desires and everybody has different ideas about things they'd like to accomplish creatively.

— Kim Wayans

To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings…

— Mos Def

The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.

— Rollo May

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and…

— Marvin Gaye

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

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

The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured, and highly…

— Ben Shahn