Art Quote by Salman Rushdie

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble…

— George Santayana

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually…

— Anonymous

Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness.

— Sandra Bowden

Artists, in theory, should not be limited to their personal experience, culture, identity, and worldview. But they must also accept that the degree of…

— Sarah Weinman

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of…

— Oscar Wilde

“Nothing really at any period of my life was ever of the smallest importance to me compared with Art. But in the case of…

— Oscar Wilde

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the…

— Charles Baudelaire

Well, to me, the tensile strength and the very definition of an artist is something that I would place at the top of a…

— Van Dyke Parks

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility,…

— Walter Kaufmann

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and…

— Marvin Gaye

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on…

— Alexander Smith

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the…

— Diego Rivera