Art Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a…

— Criss Jami

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

— Karl Jaspers

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

— Josh Billings

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who…

— Plato

The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the…

— Jacques-Louis David

I'm an artist, not a philosopher.

— Robert Wilson

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great…

— George Bernard Shaw

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

“A wise man is one who creates a harmony between head, heart, and body. In this harmony one comes to the revelation of the…

— Osho

No man is wise enough by himself.

— Anonymous

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.

— Plato

The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.

— Eric Maisel