Art Quote by John Ruskin

The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon…

— George Bellows

The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

— Lafcadio Hearn

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of…

— John Ruskin

“Ideals are like an image of reality at a given time from a given reality. Just like no photograph of a person can truly…

— Awdhesh Singh

“Idealism is an ideal which is based on the idea of someone of the perfect world or the perfect life. An idealist fails to…

— Awdhesh Singh

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to…

— Richard Schmid

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration…

— Jacques Maritain

There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.

— Mencius

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count…

— George MacDonald

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs…

— Oscar Wilde