Artist Quote by Thomas Wolfe

I think it's what any artist would want: to feel like their work can be taken in on a level of experience beyond the…

— David Salle

No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a…

— Francis Bacon

“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

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

I think you just have to cross your fingers that there's enough artists out there that keep producing interesting work, and eventually it will…

— Geddy Lee

An artist doesn't necesetharily have to get acclaim from the outside. Maybe it is much better if he can get validation from within.

— Aaron Rose

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

— Nina Simone

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

— Martha Graham

Artists always try to make something that is going to be relevant and up-to-the-minute.

— Robert Lepage

Artists shouldn't be made famous. They have this huge aura of almost god-like quality about them, just because their craft makes a lot of…

— Kate Bush

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims…

— Andre Gide

The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe