Angling Quote by Izaak Walton

Art is not only about angst.

— John Corigliano

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

— Paul Beatty

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.

— John Ruskin

Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.

— Jack White

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

— Hermann Hesse

Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this…

— James Whistler

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

That's what great art does - it inspires other artists to do great art, and that's what it should do.

— Andrew Stanton

I consider it a great honor to be part of the dissemination of hearable art.

— Chris Thile

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset