Art Quote by Robert Sharenow

“…when you look at her, your heart starts slamming uncontrollably in your chest. So much that it scares you. And every other noise that…

— Deb Apodaca

Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work…

— Marcel Duchamp

There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.

— Richard Linklater

I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just…

— Michael Jackson

A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips, teaches us to perceive reality…

— John Edgar Wideman

I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.

— Camille Paglia

One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal…

— Fernando Bujones

In minority communities there's a sensitivity, often a knee-jerk reaction, to critical representations. There's a misunderstanding of what an artist does.

— Junot Diaz

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

— Burton Raffel

The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.

— Jacques Maritain

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

— Andre Gide

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to…

— Gloria Estefan