Art Quote by Peter Schjeldahl

...why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's…

— Roger Waters

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the…

— Diego Rivera

...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to…

— Peter Block

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

— Robin Gibb

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a…

— Gustave Flaubert

An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and probably contrary…

— Peter Schjeldahl

An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.

— Ruth Asawa

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

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you…

— David Bowie

The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends…

— Paul Strand

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

— William Faulkner

Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression…

— Cornel West