Art Quote by Ezra Pound

“Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart…

— Ezra Pound

At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a…

— Amanda Burton

There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall

— Cyril Connolly

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

— E. M. Forster

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

— George Santayana

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great…

— Oscar Wilde

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before…

— Alain de Botton

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.

— Gerhard Richter

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic…

— Upton Sinclair

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it…

— Albert Pike

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the…

— Anonymous