Art Quote by Aristotle

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

— Iris Murdoch

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

— Iris Murdoch

“Virtue: Pure Art ”

— Austin Osman, Spare

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

— Tony Kushner

“Every talent, every feeling, every acquirement; nay, even every tendency towards virtue, was used up as materials for fireworks; the hidden, sacred fire, exhausted…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“After all, our main business in art, as in life, is to strive. Honest effort meets with its own reward, even where it does…

— Aubertine Woodward Moore

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might long to…

— Donald Barthelme

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and…

— Russell Kirk

“I wouldn’t say “art” as much as “virtue,” in the ancient Greek sense of “andreia” – manly action – or “arete,” excellence. In my…

— Steven Pressfield

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Hard work IS its own reward. Integrity IS priceless. Art DOES feed the soul.

— Marcus Samuelsson

Virtue proceeds through effort.

— Euripides