Art Quote by Gustav Flaubert

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

“No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissastifaction; a blessed unrest that keeps…

— Martha Graham

“Yet surely there are men who have made their art Out of no tragic war, lovers of life, Impulsive men that look for happiness…

— W.B. Yeats

“Is it any wonder that no truly respectable society has ever trusted its artists?”

— Leguin, Ursula

“All my life I have refused to be for or against parties, for or against nations, for or against people. I never seek novelty…

— Robert Henri

“I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this—such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice.”

— Tessa Emily Hall

“True artists, whatever smiling faces they may show you, are obsessive, driven people—whether driven by some mania or driven by some high, noble vision…

— John Gardner

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

— Andres Serrano

“The most glorious works of art, the ones that bring the purest joy – perhaps they need not be touched or known, but seen…

— Michelle Cuevas

“You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not…

— Oscar Wilde

“Some artists are criticised, some artists are admired, but some artists are loved and they are the one who are remembered.”

— Amit Kalantri

If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the…

— Lionel Trilling