Art Quote by Edgar Lee Masters

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift…

— Joseph Conrad

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions…

— Oscar Wilde

[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and…

— Joseph Conrad

“And these men, for whom life has no repose, live at times in their rare moments of happiness with such strength and indescribable beauty,…

— Hermann Hesse

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing…

— Bernard Berenson

“As he scribbled his odds and ends, he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always serves beauty, and beauty is delight in…

— Boris Pasternak

“At times like this you desperately need Art. You seek to reconnect with your spiritual illusions, and you wish fervently that something might rescue…

— Muriel Barbery

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“A story, I had learned, through my own constant knitting and reknitting of remembered words, can lead us back to ourselves, to our lost…

— Anonymous

“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible,…

— Simona Panova

“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved in the…

— Victor Hugo