Art Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

“Writing, as most art, is considered to be essentially superfluous. Who is an artist before a surgeon? Or a scientist? But the fact that…

— Rainer J. Hanshe

Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short…

— Hilaire Belloc

“The true artist has no pride. He sees unfortunately that art has no limits; he has a vague awareness of how far he is…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must…

— Philip Roth

“Virtue: Pure Art ”

— Austin Osman, Spare

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as…

— Rebecca West

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own…

— Ben Shahn

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication.…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is from the…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

— Paul Cezanne