Art Quote by Anonymous

No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperament. I have never seen, myself, why the…

— Agatha Christie

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

— Saul Bellow

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

— Roman Payne

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed.…

— John Walford

Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind.

— Qiu Miaojin

“Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to…

— Moliere

You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of…

— Joseph Conrad

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

— Philip Roth