Contemplative Quote by Arnulf Rainer

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular…

— Barbara Hepworth

“Your principles have life in them. For how can they perish, unless the ideas that correspond to them are extinguished? And it is up…

— Marcus Aurelius

It is very important that you express your idealism actively, to what ever extent you can, for this increases your sense of worth and…

— Seth

... my whole existence is governed by abstract ideas… the ideal must be preserved regardless of fact.

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my…

— William-Adolphe Bouguereau

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty,…

— Albert Einstein

What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get…

— Anna Deavere Smith

I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.

— Roxane Gay

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I have my principles.

— Seve Ballesteros

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty,…

— Albert Einstein

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to…

— Richard Schmid