Art Quote by Brandon Sanderson

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

— James Joyce

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions…

— Oscar Wilde

“He did not begin by tearing down, or by painting so intense a picture of misery and injustice that you burned to change the…

— Dorothy Day

Art is the essence of beauty. The artist, a mute that practiced crying until he managed to shout free of dissonance.

— Mariana Fulger

He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find…

— Richard Schickel

“I didn’t know if he was crying for what he’d lost, or for what he’d never had, but there was a beauty in his…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“the outlines of his figure were indistinct—but his features were the features of a deity; for the mantle of the night, and of the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And…

— T S Eliot

“He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and…

— Henry James

There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things…

— Walter Isaacson