Art Quote by Steven Pressfield

“The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. Each asks the same questions: Who am…

— Steven Pressfield

“The artist and the fundamentalist arise from societies at differing stages of development. The artist is the advanced model. His culture possesses affluence, stability,…

— Steven Pressfield

“Fundamentalism and art are mutually exclusive. There is no such thing as fundamentalist art.”

— Steven Pressfield

Both art and the artist lack identity and define themselves only through their encounter with each other.

— Harold Rosenberg

Artists are those people who sit at the intersection between the known and unknown, the rational and irrational, coming to terms with some of…

— Kehinde Wiley

The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.

— Herbert Read

You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries…

— Anthony Davis

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just…

— Leonard Bernstein

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

— Isaac Asimov

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of thereformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker…

— Anonymous

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not…

— Henry Miller

“If what any artist has to say is fundamentally human and profound the public will ultimately take his work unto itself. But if his…

— Ben Shahn