Art Quote by Hozier

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

— Samuel Butler

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they…

— Billy Joel

The true portrait of a man is a fusion of what he thinks he is, what others think he is, what he really is…

— Dore Schary

“We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.”

— Oscar Wilde

You can describe [Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of His Former Self] as a manifesto of sorts. I saw it as a…

— Kerry James Marshall

I grew up in adoration of writers like Hemingway, George Orwell, Anna Akhmatova, and that has always been my idea about the artist -…

— Haris Pasovic

Like the adolescent, the artist is a dreamer and a revolutionary; like the adolescent, he often finds his accomplishment inadequate to his imaginings. But…

— Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by.

— Russell Simmons

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

— Anonymous

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

— Anish Kapoor

“The real artist with no tear in his eye and no sadness in his heart, puts the pages in the fire and does it…

— Harry Crews

“I feel very strongly that every artist has one central story to tell. The struggle is to tell and retell that story over and…

— Gregory Crewdson