Art Quote by Robert Genn

An artist's job is to be interested in things as they are.

— George Saunders

Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we…

— Mohsin Hamid

Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of…

— Jon Pareles

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is…

— Anna Deavere Smith

Artists who say that they're artists: usually people who need a job.

— Doug Stanhope

Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.

— Louise Bourgeois

Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.

— Benjamin Walker

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work…

— Diana Krall

There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We…

— Russell Smith

Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.

— Dong Kingman

People who are artists professionally are not artists because they want to be artists; they have to be artists. They're compelled to get that…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Artists should be self-aware of their work and their potential places in people's lives and make their decisions accordingly.

— Oliver $