Art Quote by Sol LeWitt

The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not about the object, and…

— Jeff Koons

I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what…

— Agnes Martin

That a viewer does not see what the artist intended does not make the composition a failure... In reality all artists speak first to…

— Mike Svob

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

— Robert Longo

I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going…

— Eric Drooker

The artist, viewing his fellows through his personal vision, has through the ages attempted to portray what he sees and to present his understanding…

— Hollis Alpert

I think anytime you see something that's been brought to life by an artist's hands, it just has a different kind of quality.

— Travis Knight

And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound.…

— Plato

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.

— Maxwell Perkins

Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of…

— Vincent Van Gogh

It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate the findings…

— Hans Haacke

Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he…

— Romare Bearden