Art Quote by Dame Edna Everage

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the…

— Thornton Wilder

“Yet surely there are men who have made their art Out of no tragic war, lovers of life, Impulsive men that look for happiness…

— W.B. Yeats

“Any artist who fails to engage with society and the vulnerability of the individual in a cruel existence should not style him-or herself an…

— Lena Andersson

“Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore the most dangerous.”

— Anonymous

“But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination. ”

— Oscar Wilde

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Nothing really at any period of my life was ever of the smallest importance to me compared with Art. But in the case of…

— Oscar Wilde

“Without an element of vulgarity, no man can be a work of art...I have to try and think what an artist is, apart from…

— Quentin Crisp

“There is always a mysterious conflict in every artist; if life treats him roughly he longs for peace and calm, but if he comes…

— Stefan Zweig

The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.

— William Bernbach

We are in the midst of a momentous catastrophe of world history, of a transformation of all aspects of life and of the entire…

— Walter Gropius