In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a…

If you want to give a man something practical, consider tires. More than once, I would have gladly traded all the gifts I got…

— Dave Barry

A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity…

— Walter Bagehot

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying…

— Thomas Mann

Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.

— Russell Smith

“From the outside looking in, i think my life would appear very isolated, occupying a huge empty space, with hollow-sounding, emotional echoes. But in…

— Jaeda DeWalt

“Almost every artistic nature is born with a revealing connoisseurial tendency that appreciates injustice so long as it results in beauty and applauds, even…

— Thomas Mann

I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And…

— G-Dragon

From as long as I can remember, I was always fond of drawing.

— St. Lucia

“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it…

— Taf Teh

“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists…

— Justina Chen Headley

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

— Margaret Mead

“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,…

— Steve Martin

I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your…

— Aaron Rose

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

— Marcel Duchamp