Art Quote by Seth Godin

“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not…

— Chaim Potok

“The work of the artist is to lift up people's hearts and help them endure.”

— William Faulkner

“The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface”

— Lisa Renee Jones

“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

“Art gives those unexpressed parts of ourselves permission to be felt and spoken.”

— Jaeda DeWalt

“In every age, art holds up to us the standard pattern of exemplary conduct, and real life does its best to conform.”

— Dorothy Sayers

“Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.”

— Theodor W. Adorno

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

— Aniruddha Sastikar

“Artists often enslave their friends.”

— Anonymous

“Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.”

— Jim Morrison

“I have always wanted my art to service my people.... We have to create an art for liberation and for life”

— Elizabeth Catlett