Admirer Quote by Scott Kahn

As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world. We're prideful,…

— Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

“...and as far as talent is concerned, there will be such an excess that our artists will become their own audiences, and audiences made…

— Hermann Hesse

I am not a representative of anything. When art historians or critics or the public put somebody in a drawer like this, it has…

— Georg Baselitz

All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.

— Jerry Saltz

Many excellent artists working today unfortunately lack the indispensable gifts necessary for demagoguery and self-promotion, while the bad ones are full of passionate intensity.

— Roman Genn

There was a time when individual artistes were appreciated. I miss that.

— Jubin Nautiyal

Without audiences, artists would be doing something else, and their creative and technical skills would fall on absent eyes.

— Ryan Kavanaugh

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

— Robert Genn

“Part of what attracts us to artists is their otherness, their refusal to conform, their big middle finger stuck up in the face of…

— Jesse Kellerman

The artists and creative people are not in a position to teach someone. Nobody wants to be taught through entertainment.

— Alok Nath

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

— Marisa Tomei

“True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs.”

— Aniruddha Sastikar