Art Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human…

— Anonymous

It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and…

— Edward Steichen

“When man finds in himself a certain defect, of which he can by no means rid himself, there remains but to accept the so-called…

— Lev Shestov

An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does…

— Bridget Riley

“Part of what attracts us to artists is their otherness, their refusal to conform, their big middle finger stuck up in the face of…

— Jesse Kellerman

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must…

— Paul Cezanne

“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

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men…

— Claude Bernard

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art…

— Emily Haines

“The lover of excellence is prone to being drawn out of himself, erotically almost, in a way that the universalist egalitarian is not. The…

— Matthew B. Crawford

“Men do not know why they award fame to one work of art rather than another. Without being in the faintest connoisseurs, they think…

— Thomas Mann