14,373 Quotes About Art

Dying Speech of an Old PhilosopherI strove with none, for none was worth my strife.Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art:I warm'd both hands before the fire of life;It sinks; and I am ready to depart.

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

Never I've felt more validated in my life that through art.

It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.

One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.

The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.

Live live an artist.

An artist is an artist.