Art Quote by A.H. Richards

“The scientist has in common with the artist only this: that he can find no better retreat from the world than his work and…

— Max Delbruck

“You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your…

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“I know that western sky. Sometimes when I'm alone painting, a blind lifts and I let my mind drift back. I remember walking out…

— Dawn Tripp

“A great work of art, if it accomplishes anything, serves to remind us, or let us say to set us dreaming, of all that…

— Henry Miller

“The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation…

— John Updike

“We are all artists; painting the world with our thoughts while coloring the universe with our deeds.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Sometimes, one trembling star comes in the clear sky and makes me think the world beautiful and we maggots deforming even the trees with…

— Virginia Woolf

“It is as well that the world knows only a fine piece of work and not also its origins, the conditions under which it…

— Thomas Mann

“Once, on a sleepless night, I elaborated a whole theory of art predicated on simply reminding the ever-forgetful mind of the most basic truths:…

— David Gordon

“It is probably better that the world knows only the result, not the conditions under which it was achieved; because knowledge of the artist’s…

— Thomas Mann

“there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.”

— Philip Pullman