Art Quote by Cyril Connolly

“...art is made by the alone for the alone… The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication...”

— Cyril Connolly

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

— Jean Cocteau

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be…

— Nick Cave

To be an artist is not about fame; it's about art, which is this intangible thing that has got to have lots of integrity,…

— Damien Hirst

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all,…

— Thomas Fuller

To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your…

— Cardi B

The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“How is intoxication (that “I Know”, “I am something”) recognized? It is when one says, ‘Yours is wrong’.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“If you have gotten bored with God, you have gotten disconnected with the most fascinating, intoxicating Person in the universe.”

— Catherine Toon

For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal.…

— Hermann Hesse

Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the…

— Emily Dickinson

The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind…

— Mary Augusta Ward

“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?”

— Roman Payne

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in…

— Walt Whitman