Art Quote by Plato

The general misunderstanding of a work of art is often due to the fact that the key to its spiritual content and technical means…

— Hans Hofmann

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

— Isaac Asimov

The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.

— Eric Maisel

I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible…

— Keith Haring

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who…

— Virginia Woolf

To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art

— Lucian Freud

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.

— Maxwell Perkins

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which…

— Paul Cezanne

Once it is out of his hand the artist has no control over the way a viewer will perceive the work. Different people will…

— Sol LeWitt

The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

— William Dobell

As I have always said, an artist's existence and identity are only because of the audience.

— Rubina Dilaik