Great saying by great authors Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer…

— Sam Francis

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

— Irving Stone

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

When an artist becomes complacent, he dies.

— Nate Parker

“In the corridor the dying man had at last ceased his thrashing. Blood no longer spurted from his neck but simply oozed out onto…

— Tom Wood

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“He connected with the storytelling in the manuscript painting, he said, because it was clear to him that this artist, working hundreds of years…

— Christian Madsbjerg

“It is almost impossible to express the extraordinary silence that came over everyone whose eyes were fixed on the painting––not a rustle, not a…

— Nikolai Gogol

His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fellHis troubled…

— Siegfried Sassoon

His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an…

— William S. Burroughs

“The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist…

— Rachel Field

When we neglect the artist in ourselves, there is a kind of mourning that goes on under the surface of our busy lives.

— Pat Schneider