Art Quote by E.M. Cioran Download Open image ““Refinement is the sign of deficient vitality, in art, in love, and in everything.”” — E.M. Cioran ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Deficient Deficient Vitality Love Perfection Refinement Refinement Sign Sign Deficient
“That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“For art to truly affect us, it needs to be, in a sense, “given.” — Elizabeth Hyde Stevens Copy Share Image
“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with, we cease to see.” — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.” — Richard Matturro Copy Share Image
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Never judge a work of art by its defects. They same is true with people.” — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
“Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.” — Jeff Ryan Copy Share Image
“At times such as this, it becomes more important for art to survive.” — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
“And who was ever bold enough to do nothing because every action is senseless in infinity?” — E.M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“A negação nunca sai de um raciocínio mas sim de algo obscuro e antigo. Os argumentos vêm depois, para a justificar e apoiar. Todo… — E.M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Nature's great mistake was to have been unable to confine herself to one "kingdom": juxtaposed with the vegetable, everything else seems inopportune, out of… — E.M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“I feel safer with a Pyrrho than with a Saint Paul, for a jesting wisdom is gentler than an unbridled sanctity.” — E.M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“I don't know how to make peace with things, were each moment to tear itself away from time to give me a kiss.” — E.M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Tenho todos os defeitos dos outros e, no entanto, tudo o que eles fazem parece-me inconcebível.” — E.M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“The lot of the man who has rebelled too much is to have no energy left except for disappointment.” — E.M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“How does it happen that in life as in literature, rebellion, however pure, has something false about it, whereas resignation, however tainted with listlessness,… — E.M. Cioran Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
