Art Quote by Kakuzō Okakura

Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

— Ned Rorem

“If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom…

— Oscar Wilde

“No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.”

— Oscar Wilde

“People are always relying on another, i always feel more comfortable alone. Art knows my pain, its not just a desire to paint, a…

— Nikki Rowe

“Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us…

— Oscar Wilde

“We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. The objects that provoke aesthetic emotion vary with…

— Clive Bell

“Almost every artistic nature is born with a revealing connoisseurial tendency that appreciates injustice so long as it results in beauty and applauds, even…

— Thomas Mann

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

“That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Art is a spirit and soul thing. Anything else is mere desperation.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“We place too much of ourselves inside art - so we become part of it and never feel quiet again for the people, we…

— Laura Chouette

“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them…

— Rainer Maria Rilke