Art Quote by Catherine Drinker Bowen Download Open image “Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.” — Catherine Drinker Bowen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Bitter Bitterness Great art Great artist Great Artists Snarling Time Treasure
Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Most artists I know have gone through some period that forces them to get to the very core of who they are. — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
“Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences every thing twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
