Art Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

There's enough ugliness - you know, we got wars going on and people dying and sickness and everything. We don't need to have our…

— Don McLean

The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has…

— Eckhart Tolle

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage…

— Erica Jong

Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.

— Wayne White

A true artist is an ugly man.

— Osamu Dazai

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of…

— Oscar Wilde

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually…

— Anonymous

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

— Bono

The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than…

— Ad Reinhardt

The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

— Ad Reinhardt

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

— Maynard James Keenan

One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.

— Charles Atlas