Art Quote by C.A. Dawson Scott

“Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.”

— Jeff Ryan

“A great work of art, if it accomplishes anything, serves to remind us, or let us say to set us dreaming, of all that…

— Henry Miller

“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.”

— Henry James

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Artistic temperament is like a king with vigor and unlimited opportunity. You shake the structure to pieces by playing with it.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not…

— Chaim Potok

“I think, in art, it is as noble a thing as to to try to make people happy, to help them escape, as it…

— Lucy Foley

“I don’t think that art can change the world. But at least art can help us to unveil life.”

— Eugene Lim

“The goal of the artist is not to solve a question irrefutably, but to force people to love life in all its countless, inexhaustible…

— Leo Tolstoy

“An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is done them.”

— Marcel Proust

“A plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive, at least a little bit…”

— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr