Art Quote by Jean Dubuffet

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!

— Jean Dubuffet

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

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

— Cyril Connolly

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

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon.

— David Crabb

Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary, it is…

— Lawren Harris

Art always has something of the unconscious about it.

— D.T. Suzuki

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

— Cyril Connolly

Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and…

— John Galsworthy