Art Quote by Rokia Traore

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

— Rubina Dilaik

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

— Oscar Wilde

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

— Abbas Kiarostami

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

— Andy Warhol

Artists who don't paint aren't artists.

— Billy Childish

An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

— Mignon McLaughlin

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

— Richard Foreman

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

— Stephen Stills

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

— H. L. Mencken

To be an artist means not to compute or count.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I am not an artist.

— Maurizio Cattelan

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

— Paul Auster