Art Quote by Josh Ritter Download Open image “I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.” — Josh Ritter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Joy Thinking Writing
I hate the narrative that people have to be tortured in order to be good artists. I think it's a solipsistic view that people… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything. — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
“I know that I stopped thinking about extreme grief as the sole vehicle for great art when the grief started to take people with… — Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib Copy Share Image
If you look at how great artists of the past, like Beethoven, for example dealt with art and morality, you see that there was… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Art is always, even at its most repulsive, an impassioned cry of love. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
I always think that in some way, art is the best tool we have to prepare for death. It's like a sculpture that you… — John Cameron Mitchell Copy Share Image
I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity to endure… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up. — Josh Ritter Copy Share Image
“At times throughout the night, they seemed to turn from real, living people into mere photographs of people, and then from photographs into memories,… — Josh Ritter Copy Share Image
“God doesn't build shit. Yeah, He creates stuff - the World, the mountain ranges, all that - but any fuck with one eye left… — Josh Ritter Copy Share Image
The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and… — Josh Ritter Copy Share Image
“It was the blue of the sky that caught him first: a rapturous, painfully pure spike of color that hooked his eyes like fish… — Josh Ritter Copy Share Image
“Most of all: There's uncertainty in our lives. At night, you just have to go to sleep and have faith in the fairly large… — Josh Ritter Copy Share Image
I'm looking over rooftops, and I'm hoping it ain't true, that the same God looks out for them, looks out for me and you. — Josh Ritter Copy Share Image
I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored. — Josh Ritter Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
