Art Quote by Gaston Leroux

“He has not recovered the blow?" said he to Athos. He is struck to death." Oh! your fears exaggerate, I hope. Raoul is of…

— Alexandre Dumas

“that painting, that song, that book―   if it's real, it was once terror, with cruelty and sadness as a backdrop.   it arrived…

— Adam Moursy

“The artist’s secret lies in fear and awe. Our times have turned them into terror and dismay.”

— Hugo Ball

“There is always a mysterious conflict in every artist; if life treats him roughly he longs for peace and calm, but if he comes…

— Stefan Zweig

“A houseful of killers, some of the most violent men Frank had ever encountered, and it took a woman’s touch to destroy a priceless…

— Nicole Castle

“Those visionary strains, ever struggling to translate into wild and broken sounds the language of unearthly beings, breathed around her from her birth. Thus…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“He had never met anyone who played music for a living who wasn’t fucked-up in some sad or depraved way, the same as those…

— Donald Ray Pollock

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

— Oscar Wilde

“What can be sadder than a discouraged artist dying not from his own commonplace maladies, but from the cancer of oblivion?”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“It is well known that great art, great music and great literature can emerge out of great pain. This does not lessen the reality…

— Christopher J.H. Wright

“Come, Victor; not brooding thoughts of vengeance against the assassin, but with feelings of peace and gentleness, that will heal, instead of festering, the…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley