Art Quote by Eric Hoffer

The beautiful despair is never fruitless. It keeps you going. Like when I first heard Bob Dylan do 'Things Have Changed,' or any time…

— Rodney Crowell

After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of…

— Albert Camus

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

— George Santayana

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime…

— John Divola

Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime.

— Michael Kimmelman

Sometimes art seems to be something very sublime, and, as you say, something sacred.

— Vincent Van Gogh

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

— Marianne Williamson

Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that humanity is…

— Stephanie Mills

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total despair, because…

— David Hockney

Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things…

— Walter Isaacson

More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.

— Rainer Maria Rilke