Art Quote by J. Jack Halberstam

“Art is made by those who consider themselves to have failed at whatever isn’t art. And of course it is loved as consolation, or…

— Howard Jacobson

“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

“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“The failure of art is, as we have said, not a complete failure. Substantial truth is revealed to us, we are not cheated of…

— R. G. Collingwood

“Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck,…

— Mark Vonnegut

“I'm not saying I'm able to work consistently out of the premise, but it seems like the big distinction between good art and so-so…

— David Foster Wallace

Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of…

— Max Beckmann

“Creating art is basically creating a series of failures”

— Alex Pardee

“There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.”

— Pat Conroy

“Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in daily fidelity.”

— Albert Camus

“Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks:it's always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Everything cannot…

— Rainer Maria Rilke