Art Quote by Julian Barnes Download Open image ““It was perfectly possible to be an artist, yet also to be robust and responsible.”” — Julian Barnes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art
“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“He wanted to be an artist, an artist of life wasn't enough for him, although precisely this concept provides everything we need to be… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“...the special quality of works of Art being to produce the momentary conviction that anything else whatever could not possibly be so good.” — M.P. Shiel Copy Share Image
“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.” — Ivan Fernandez Copy Share Image
“A plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive, at least a little bit…” — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr Copy Share Image
“To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.” — M. Thomas Gammarino Copy Share Image
“An artist can do whatever the artist want. The work they do will not always be appreciated by all, but still it's their work… — Atle Jarnæs Lerøy Copy Share Image
“Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.” — Elizabeth Isaacs Copy Share Image
“Any artist who has ever created something worthwhile has done so by staying true to himself. You can't do it any other way.” — Jerrod Edson Copy Share Image
“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I settled into a contented routine of working, spending my free time with Veronica and, back in my student room, wanking explosively to fantasies… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“There is only good vodka and very good vodka—there is no such thing as bad vodka.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves.… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
You put together two people who have not been put together before. Sometimes it is like that first attempt to harness a hydrogen balloon… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Also, when you are young, you think you can predict the likely pains and bleaknesses that age might bring. You imagine yourself being lonely,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods--the long-distance phone… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“My train was late, slowed by the usual Sunday engineering work. I got home in the early evening. I remember that I had a… — Julian Barnes 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… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“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… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“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
