Art Quote by William Trevor

In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I think that everyone who does music, and everyone who does art, or everyone who decides at a young age that they're gonna do…

— El-P

As an artist, the most important feeling is loneliness. So when I say artists need to isolate themselves from society this is what I…

— Zhang Xiaogang

Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some…

— Anne Roiphe

I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then we're automatically…

— Kelsea Ballerini

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

— Simone de Beauvoir

As Colin Wilson has written, "modern civilisation, with its mechanised rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before-people who are too intelligent to do…

— Laurence Boldt

Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

— Asger Jorn

I believe an artiste is a reflection of society. I write what I see. I am not a scholar, I am just an entertainer.…

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison…

— Kurt Vonnegut

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to…

— Connie Nielsen

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

— Ben Elton