Quotes About Artists

The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace.

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers.

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expression - and its message has resonated through society for centuries.

My natural orientation has never been among a community of writers, really. For some reason my social world has always been in the art world.

I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way.

I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.

You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.

Writingis an art; and artistsare human beings. As a human being stands, so a human being is

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.

As someone who has been asked to ask David Lynch what his movies mean for 25 years, I'm very careful about asking artists what their art means.

I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have a small art collection I hope to expand.

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are in fact the most in bondage to public taste.

I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed on the altar of technological advancement.

Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to musicians and other artists who represent the best of their art.

Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.