Art Quote by Aristotle

“Why is it that all men who have become outstanding in philosophy, statesmanship, poetry or the arts are melancholic,”

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

“Traits of melancholic type: talented, creative, analytical, idealistic, pessimistic, masochistic, critical and uncertain.”

— Zoe McKey

“Hermann Boerhaave still defined melancholia as merely "a long persistent delirium without fever, during which the sufferer is obsessed by only one thought.”

— Michel Foucault

Many poets write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.

— Randall Jarrell

Melancholia is the beginning and a part of mania. The development of a mania is really a worsening of the disease (melancholia) rather than…

— Aretaeus of Cappadocia

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were…

— Douglas Sirk

“We can postulate that there must be diseases founded on a conflict between ego and super-ego. Analysis gives us the right to infer that…

— Sigmund Freud

“We seem to be unable to resist overstating every aspect of ourselves: how long we are on the planet for, how much it matters…

— Alain de Botton

There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I…

— Kenny Smith

Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits…

— David Hume

And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and…

— Thomas Hobbes

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

— Alphonse de Lamartine