Art Quote by Bertrand Russell

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“People take for granted what is in fact an art. To live well, to live comfortably by one’s own standards takes a certain maturity…

— Kathleen Tessaro

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.

— Francis Bacon

A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when…

— Ernst Junger

Artisans ought to be enjoyed for what they are instead of condemned for what they are not, something that can also be said of…

— David Keirsey

“In every age, art holds up to us the standard pattern of exemplary conduct, and real life does its best to conform.”

— Dorothy Sayers

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

— Robin G. Collingwood

Simplicity and Repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“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

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

— Theodore Roosevelt