Art Quote by Judith Ortiz Cofer

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor…

— Washington Irving

If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get…

— Carl Jung

“It’s up to the writer and the artist to give voice to these people. There are two impulses in art: one is rebellious and…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“If I can produce only one beautiful work of art I shall be able to rob malice of its venom, and cowardice of its…

— Oscar Wilde

When somebody greedily comes along and thinks that they gonna snatch everything, and you have so many people that have not, the passion that…

— Chuck D

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which…

— Paul Cezanne

“Creating art is a lonely task, which is why we introverts revel in it, but when we have fans looming over us, it becomes…

— Francesca Zappia

“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms…

— Joseph Conrad

It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose…

— Sue Halpern

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not…

— Lawrence Durrell

“First, picture the forest. I want you to be its conscience, the eyes in the trees. The trees are columns of slick, brindled bark…

— Barbara Kingsolver

We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in…

— Hermann Hesse