Art Quote by Jean Dubuffet

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning…

— Jean Dubuffet

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

— Cyril Connolly

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.

— John Cage

Art is a kind of illness.

— Giacomo Puccini

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of…

— Laurence Olivier

“...art is made by the alone for the alone… The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication...”

— Cyril Connolly

The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.

— Robert Henri

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.

— W. Somerset Maugham

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

— Jean Cocteau

People drink to numb the pain and suffering. I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art…

— Marilyn Manson