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A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence. -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
I grew up going to museums. I was privileged to discover art and artists in a very personal way. -- Thelma Golden
What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers. -- Dennis Quaid
I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art. -- Grace Slick
I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist. -- Kim Weston
Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art. -- Josh Peck
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. -- Steven Pinker
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. -- Hans Hofmann
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas. -- Jamie Wyeth
People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it. -- Tony Kushner
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. -- Margot Fonteyn
I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid. -- Lyor Cohen
An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make. -- Peter Beard
The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses. -- Keith Haring
I am an artist, art has no color and no sex. -- Whoopi Goldberg
Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist. -- Edwin Louis Cole
Men talk about art, and artists make art, but should artists talk? -- Leos Carax
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. -- Rebecca West
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. -- Andre Gide
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. -- Andre Gide
I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist. -- LeRoy Neiman
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it. -- Hans Haacke
Art can only be taught by artists. -- Ruth Asawa
Artists must be sacrificed to their art. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Artists make art... everyone else talks about it. -- Paul Russo
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. -- Marcel Duchamp
Art feeds off art...and artists feed off artists. -- Robert Mangold
Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. -- Jeanette Winterson
One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully. -- Meher Baba
For every good art critic there may be ten great artists. -- Clement Greenberg
There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists. -- Ernst Gombrich
We will make love an art and we will love like artists. -- Marianne Williamson
Sex is an art; those who know better are the better artists. -- M.F. Moonzajer
What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art. -- Marcel Proust
Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are. -- Mason Cooley
There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art. -- Walter Darby Bannard
Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art. -- Charles Saatchi
It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle. -- Albert Camus
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. -- Ayn Rand
I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning. -- Camille Paglia
There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s. -- Marina Abramovic
In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul. -- John F. Kennedy
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times. -- Barbra Streisand
I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art. -- Jeff Koons
When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money. -- Oscar Wilde
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego. -- Lou Reed
Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen! -- Ann Wilson
Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art. -- Craig Johnson
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. -- Oscar Wilde
As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists. -- Jeff Koons
Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away? -- Alexander Theroux
When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another. -- Sol LeWitt
Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art. -- Eric Gibbons
I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers. -- Jim Morrison
But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money? -- Francis Ford Coppola
There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists. -- Criss Jami
When comparing works of art, it is important that the art itself, and not the artists, be considered. -- T. S. Eliot
All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist. -- Lionel Hampton
Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish. -- Marilyn Ferguson
The industry needs to be run by artists, because we are the only people that care about art. -- Nikki Sixx
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life. -- Issey Miyake
Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour. -- Jack White
Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money. -- James Rosenquist
Flying is not only the art of the birds, but it is also the art of the artists! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I believe in perpetual art, no matter if there are not many artists like me on this earth. -- Jeet Aulakh
I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists. -- Dave Hickey
Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity. -- Kazimir Malevich
Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be. -- CaitlÃn R. Kiernan
It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists. -- Alexander Kotov
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. -- Sol LeWitt
When artists give form to revelation, their art can advance, deepen and potentially transform the consciousness of their community. -- Alex Grey
The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration? -- Kate Christensen
Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains. -- Nadia Boulanger
As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality. -- Yareli Arizmendi
By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones. -- Wes Nisker
That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do. -- Andrew Stanton
MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world. -- Karlie Kloss
Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for. -- Andre Simon
Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art. -- Matthew Collings
The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace. -- Cornel West
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art. -- John B. S. Haldane
The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
Many artists who don't go off to art school come to New York. It's about what you learn when you're here. -- Urs Fischer
Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way. -- Eli Broad
Shooting is a lost art. I want to be one of the artists who is remembered for a long, long time. -- Michael Redd
Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey. -- Brian Michael Bendis
I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists. -- Kim Gordon
It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression. -- Oscar Wilde
As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded. -- Frances Stark
I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods. -- Yves Tanguy
There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types. -- John Romero
That DMC Act is a disgrace. And the problem with independent art in this country is that independent artists have been economically blacklisted. -- Lloyd Kaufman
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution. -- Tony Kushner
An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace. -- Eric Maisel
Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art. -- Jane Lynch
It is my dearest wish to help young artists of our country....and to assist them in establishing themselves in the art world. -- Louis Comfort Tiffany
Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her choices. -- Sally Warner
I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner. -- Barry McGee
I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work. -- Charles Saatchi
If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists. -- Vivek Shraya
Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature. -- O. Henry
It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads. -- Willam Belli
Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great. -- Chris Van Allsburg
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists. -- Jerry Saltz
Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great -- Chris Van Allsburg
There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it. -- Vanessa Paradis
People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired. -- John Cage
It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it certainly does upset the art historians. -- Chuck Close
Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best. -- Walter Darby Bannard
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. -- Jean Cocteau
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. -- Questlove
To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art. -- Julian Casablancas
Kitsch makes things that are pretty as representations, but ugly as art, modern artists made things that are ugly as representations but beautiful as art. -- Mike Curran
artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop. -- Anne Truitt
Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio. -- Eric Maisel
I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth. -- John Baldessari

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