Art Quote by E. M. Forster Download Open image “The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.” — E. M. Forster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Incomplete Life Sadness Should
Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness. — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist. — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
Art is a staple of mankind... So urgent, so utterly linked with the pulse of feeling that it becomes the singular sign of life… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
“Tragic art is the organization of a small portion of an otherwise meaningless world that gives purpose to an individual existence.” — Joshua Foa Dienstag Copy Share Image
“Wonderful art can spring from misery,I'm the last person to deny that.I'd go even further:the best works of art of all time are probably… — Esther Verhoef Copy Share Image
...to make art is to realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel sad with and for a… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
“Something is always born out of too deep grief. Just when you grope for balance, art is born out of a compelling desire to… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
“Art, their father had frequently told them, was exactly that: to make art is the realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in… — Marianne Wiggins Copy Share Image
Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life — E. M. Forster 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
