Books Quote by Baltasar Gracian

I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using…

— Mikhail Sholokhov

In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a…

— Aubrey Beardsley

I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas…

— Jane Yolen

Monarchs, aristocrats, and other powerful and wealthy individuals have usually been happy to have themselves and their possessions and families immortalised in oil paintings…

— Linda Colley

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a…

— Edward Hopper

“This is not an age favourable to the development of artistic genius; it may be that for a time all forms of art will…

— Elizabeth Jenkins

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

— Georg Baselitz

“The power of the pen does not reside in the ink but in the character of the person doing the writing.”

— Aaron Fruh

But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.

— Camille Pissarro

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“So when the faithful pencil has design'd Some bright idea of the master's mind, Where a new world leaps out at his command, And…

— Alexander Pope

“Money and arrogance have the power to write tales of oppression, and the pen has the power to turn those tales into history, so…

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari