Art Quote by William Morris

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

— Joseph Conrad

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.

— Tom Stoppard

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

— Keith Jarrett

When one is an artist, what else can he be?

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

An artist is usually the handyman in the service of inspiration.

— Kenneth G. Mills

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

— Andy Warhol

An artist's job is to be interested in things as they are.

— George Saunders

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually…

— Anonymous

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of…

— Jackson Pollock

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

— Harold Rosenberg

Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

— Robert Fripp

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

— Andy Warhol