Art Quote by Dag Solstad

“He accorded his art the highest respect, that of never taking it for granted. Always, as long as he lived, he tried to learn…

— Elizabeth Borton De Trevino

“More than anyone I’d ever met, he seemed to participate in life as if it were art, and to practice a studied, careful carefreeness.…

— Joshua Foer

“Be remarkable Be generous Create art Make judgment calls Connect people and ideas . . . and we have no choice but to reward you.”

— Seth Godin

“At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant, that for…

— Joy Williams

“...I knew he had something that so many of my other students were lacking... desire. Not just the desire to create because for an…

— Darian North

“I envied his inspiration, his optimism in focusing back on the painful but glorious days. They were caring days, when we knew what we…

— Bao Ninh

“You will not find a treatise that is too learned for me; without laying claim to any genuine learning, I yet accustomed myself from…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things…

— Walter Isaacson

“He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and…

— Henry James

“He had not liked the things taught to him in college. He had been taught a great deal about social responsibility, about a life…

— Ayn Rand

“He felt like a young student again, confronted with all the art and knowledge of mankind. The experience was both exhilarating and depressing; a…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“He had a singularly charming smile, and it ensured for him, no matter how exacting might be his demands, the uncomplaining exertions of his…

— Georgette Heyer