Art Quote by Edward Gorey Download Open image ““The Baron told her that only art meant anything.”” — Edward Gorey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art
“The photos stirred feelings she couldn't quite frame in words, and this, she decided, must mean they were true works of art.” — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“Art is a spirit and soul thing. Anything else is mere desperation.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“If you could explain something perfectly, then you’d never need art.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“She told him he saw the world with the eye of an artist and so could isolate beauty from the terror of existence.” — Brooks Malcolm Copy Share Image
“Art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“...there is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.” — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“She drew the things that stuck to her mind, the things that caught her attention and, specially, the things she wasn't capable of understanding… — Zøe Haslie Copy Share Image
“The one who says he doesn't understand anything about art, doesn't know himself.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season. — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
“Apropos of nothing at all except that it has been on my mind and I think I had better say it because it accounts… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
“How elegant! how choice! how gay! To think one doesn’t have to pay. There is sound of falling tears; It comes from nowhere to… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity. — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal… — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon. — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
“He presented it with a length of string and passed on to the statue of Corrupted Endeavor to await the arrival of Autumn.” — Edward Gorey 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
