Art Quote by Elizabeth Mann Borgese

“He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn't enough for him, although precisely this concept provides everything we need to be…

— Thomas Bernhard

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Could a person choose to be or not to be an artist?”

— Tom Robbins

“The exquisite world of imagination opened up by any powerful music is itself problematic, for it tempts listeners to put into words the feelings…

— Anonymous

“He had even tried the violin a few years earlier. Anything to switch talents, but there was no escape. The compulsion was identical to…

— Romain Gary

“Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the…

— Jean Douchet

“Absurdly, irrationally, she believed that music could make a difference to the temper of the world.She did not investigate this belief, test it to…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Music really did mean something to him, he realized, and it always had. It called to him, although there were no words to describe…

— Tad Williams

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. A”

— Pablo Picasso

“He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that…

— E.M. Forster

“Music is a piece of art that goes in the ears straight to the heart.”

— Ron Young Morris Plains

“You're the kind of child who might develop a passion for Bach." I told him I hadn't at school. The one Bach piece I…

— Dodie Smith