Art Quote by George Gissing

“At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant, that for…

— Joy Williams

“Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks:it's always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Everything cannot…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“they would be astonished to discover the seriously German problem that we are dealing with, a vortex and a turning-point at the very centre…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things aren't all…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.”

— Kayla Rae Whitaker

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

“To create works of art meant no less to him than to paint life, not mere reality, but the principle of life.”

— Ingo Walther

“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“But perhaps the the great work of art has less importance in itself than in the ordeal it demands of a man and the…

— Albert Camus

“Now observe; if the artist does not understand the sacredness of the truth of Impression, and supposes that, once quitting hold of his first…

— John Ruskin

“He doesn't believe in talking too much about art, especially while you're looking at it. The pressure to appreciate is the great enemy of…

— Robert Hellenga