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Artist Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
- The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
- Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
- The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.
- The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe…
- It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that…
- An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
- A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.
- A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.
- Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen,…
- The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.
- The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
- There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of…
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