Art Quote by Anthony Burgess

Art is a jealous mistress.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The imagination of a eunuch dwells more and longer upon the material of love than that of man or woman ... supplying, so far…

— John Quincy Adams

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

— Edgar Degas

Critics of art are like eunuchs in harem. They see how it's done when the men come to see the women, but they can't…

— Gary Busey

Art is the sex of the imagination.

— George Jean Nathan

“It is not the artistic aptitudes that are secondary sexual characters as some shams and shamans have said; it is the other way around:…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

— Jean Cocteau

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

— Paul Cezanne

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

— Herb Alpert

I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about a woman…

— Laurie Simmons

“artists have sex but art has none”

— Oscar Wilde