Art Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

There is always a struggle, a striving for something bigger than yourself in all forms of art. And even if you don't achieve greatness,…

— Rex Harrison

“That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.”

— C.S. Lewis

There is always a struggle, a striving for something bigger than yourself in all forms of art. And even if you don't achieve greatness,…

— Rex Harrison

Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the…

— Aleksandar Hemon

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty,…

— Albert Einstein

“By trying to export myself into a place that didn't fully exist I asked works of art to bear my expectation that they could…

— Jonathan Lethem

“There is beauty in every incident of life; the true and the false, the wise and the foolish, are all one in the eye…

— Aleister Crowley

“It is essential that a work of art should be self-consistent, that an artist should consciously or unconsciously draw a circle beyond which he…

— T.S. Eliot

“The nature of a work of art is to be not a part, nor yet a copy of the real world but a world…

— A.C. Bradley

What is art but the denial of life?

— Fernando Pessoa

“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

The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ...…

— James Freeman Clarke