Art Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

— T Bone Burnett

Generosity is as much showing your vulnerability as it is your passion for something.

— David Droga

“Generosity is a lifestyle that seeks to understand the needs of others and strives to bring an end to that suffering.”

— Jeff Shinabarger

“There is a mystery about generosity. If you see it with your human eyes you might think that you lose—position, recognition, resources—when you give…

— JA Perez

The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and…

— Carl Jung

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The artist is always the servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Real and lasting generosity requires that a person do more than make up his mind to give. He must also make up his heart.

— William Arthur Ward

“No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.”

— Oscar Wilde

Generosity is the vanity of giving.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

— T. S. Eliot

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

— Philip Roth