Advocacy Quote by Aldous Huxley

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

— Aldous Huxley

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He…

— William Faulkner

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

— William Faulkner

Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short…

— Hilaire Belloc

An artist should be as impartial as God.

— Wyndham Lewis

The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much…

— Charles Baudelaire

If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.

— Walter Becker

An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the…

— Diego Rivera

The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his…

— Camille Paglia

Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and…

— Anonymous

Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.

— Steven Pressfield

“Writing, as most art, is considered to be essentially superfluous. Who is an artist before a surgeon? Or a scientist? But the fact that…

— Rainer J. Hanshe