Art Quote by Havelock Ellis

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

— Edvard Munch

It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering into refined…

— Samuel Johnson

To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has to solve...And…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record…

— William Osler

For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.

— Gustave Flaubert

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man.

— Anonymous

It is a truism that as long as man loves but himself and his art he can never attain to the full measure of…

— Percy Jewett Burrell

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

— Chinua Achebe

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

— Oscar Wilde

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne