Art Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, rather because it wishes to be art. However much the writer might long to…

— Donald Barthelme

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

— Henry Fuseli

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.

— Donald Barthelme

Art is often born from inner struggle. Artists are plagued by impulses they must express. Contentment does not seek action but struggle always seeks…

— Eric Gibbons

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 one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

— Aldous Huxley

...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to…

— Robert Adams

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we…

— John Cassavetes

“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

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration,…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

— Fernando Botero