Art Quote by Seth Godin

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

— Joseph Conrad

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

— Tom Stoppard

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

The definition of an artist, for me, is someone who is quite selfish about their creativity.

— Steven Wilson

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

— Harold Rosenberg

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

— Andy Warhol

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can…

— Al Jourgensen

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away…

— Richard Price

An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.

— Ruth Asawa

An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the superiorly searching…

— Morris Graves

An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and probably contrary…

— Peter Schjeldahl