Absolutes Quote by Charlotte Saunders Cushman

Art is a jealous mistress.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is a goddess of dainty thought, reticent of habit, abjuring all obtrusiveness, purposing in no way to better others. She is, withal selfishly…

— James Whistler

Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.

— Robert Genn

... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

— Tracey Emin

Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

— Friedrich Schiller

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own…

— Ben Shahn

“How may paintings have preserved the image of a divine beauty which in its natural manifestation has been rapidly overtaken by time or death.…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor. I wed…

— Rosa Bonheur

All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

— Iris Murdoch

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

— Iris Murdoch

Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon