Art Quote by Rob Pilatus

Sometimes the European and North American public like some things to be exotic and kept at arm's length. They don't want sometimes to know…

— David Byrne

Most of arts what comes from the States to Europe has something to do with entertainment. I can't imagine artists in the United States…

— Georg Baselitz

The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the…

— Carlisle Floyd

Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of roughing it.

— Eric Drooker

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

— Elizabeth Bowen

We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over…

— Peter Block

Artists are blessed to travel all over the world. They see the trends before they even come out.

— Tina Knowles

I think, for the most part, our culture embraces that artists are born, not made.

— Chris Van Allsburg

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

— Maynard James Keenan

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

— Carlisle Floyd

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

— Brad Holland

Too many artists appear to forget where they came from.

— Louis Walsh