Art Quote by Sylvan Barnet

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

— Robert Longo

Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of…

— Jon Pareles

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the…

— M. C. Escher

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

— Talib Kweli

One doesn't need to know the artist's private intentions. The work tells all.

— Susan Sontag

The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is…

— David Gilmour

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

— Maya Lin

It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a…

— Anish Kapoor

There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about…

— Jenny Diski

Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.

— Massimiliano Gioni

People in the industry have their own judgment on artistes.

— Regina Cassandra

We as artists are actively encouraged - by other authors, your agent, publisher, and society - not to think about money, strategy, how to…

— Cassandra Clare