Alive Quote by Yasumasa Morimura

When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a…

— Yasumasa Morimura

Leonard de Vinci, for example, is a great artist, but he is living in the past. However, I don't feel John Cage and Matsuzawa…

— Yasumasa Morimura

There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.

— Bob Ross

Artists have to survive.

— Alex Scally

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

— Paul Auster

But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when…

— Michael Tilson Thomas

A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an…

— Christian Keiber

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

People who die in an untimely way who are artists, somehow that validates their art, we feel. Why culturally we feel that, I don't…

— Kevin Macdonald

Back in the day, artists could be mysterious. Now, people want to know and hear everything about you. They want to see and feel…

— Kandi Burruss

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

— Jon Pareles

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

— Elizabeth Bowen