Art Quote by George Jean Nathan Download Open image “Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.” — George Jean Nathan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Great art Great music Irrational Loveliness Mad Music
Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only… — John Marin Copy Share Image
For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest… — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
“All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's good to get mad, sometimes it clarifies where we stand. I think that art has the ability to challenge and push, and… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it,… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Art is always, even at its most repulsive, an impassioned cry of love. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
“An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“A true artist removes his heart willingly, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back—bruised and aching—as he continues to strive for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . .… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
