Art Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers

“To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or…

— Anonymous

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

“It may, after all, be the bad habit of creative talents to invest themselves in pathological extremes that yield remarkable insights but no durable…

— Theodore Roszak

But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you,…

— Bill Crawford

Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science…

— Leo Tolstoy

“If you look to artists who've managed to achieve lifelong careers, you detect the same pattern: They all have been able to persevere, regardless…

— Austin Kleon

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must…

— Paul Cezanne

“Human beings have a remarkable talent for persuading themselves of the authenticity and nobility of aspects of themselves which are in fact expedient, spurious,…

— Salman Rushdie

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“Any work aspiring to be art however humble should carry its justification in every line.”

— Joseph Conrad