Art Quote by Darian North

“He was an artist of rare ability, a self-taught artist, without teachers or schools, principles and rules, carried away only by the thirst for…

— Nikolai Gogol

“He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn't enough for him, although precisely this concept provides everything we need to be…

— Thomas Bernhard

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

— Oscar Wilde

“For art is about desire, is it not, and never its consummation?”

— A. Manette Ansay

“Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most of present…

— Charlotte Brontë

“He can be so appreciative of all forms of art, but so matter-of-fact and unemotional about it.”

— Dodie Smith

“...the special quality of works of Art being to produce the momentary conviction that anything else whatever could not possibly be so good.”

— M.P. Shiel

“[...] he is the artist of his own life, and creates it for himself every hour to suit his latest whim.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Move like someone who understands that they were created by The Most High. Your existence is a testament that He knows how to create…

— Gift Gugu Mona

“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not…

— Chaim Potok

“I watched him carefully. He was making art because he has to, and because he's brave enough to try and make contact, right there…

— Anne Lamott

“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