Art Quote by Andre Gide

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation

— Lewis Hyde

Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we…

— Clarence Day

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

— Oscar Wilde

The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.

— Bronislaw Huberman

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

— Constantin Brancusi

Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Creating art is basically creating a series of failures”

— Alex Pardee

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

— Andre Malraux

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

— Irving Stone

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

— Philip Schultz