Admire Quote by Eric Hoffer

The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand…

— Camille Saint-Saens

Let them understand above all that the artist works from necessity; that he, too, is a minute element of the world to whom one…

— Pablo Picasso

There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unspeakable, all those things come into being a composer, into writing music, into searching…

— David Bowie

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet,…

— Oscar Wilde

“He wishes he were a skilled poet, it would fit his chosen image perfectly; the poor, tragic, tortured artiste. But he has no talent…

— Curtis Ackie

To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is…

— Georges Braque

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot,…

— Joshua Reynolds

I think the tendency to paint composers or styles of music with too broad a brush - for example, identifying composers as writers of…

— Michael Hersch

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting

— Edmund Burke

Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting.…

— Edouard Vuillard

When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience.…

— C. S. Lewis

Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers,…

— Pablo Picasso