Quotes about Art
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.
— Samuel Beckett
The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.
— Donald Justice
Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
— Mary Baker Eddy
There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.
— Cicero
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.
— Charles Dickens
I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.
— Walt Disney
Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
— George Bernard Shaw
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.
— Madeleine L'Engle
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
— Marcus Aurelius
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.
— William Wordsworth