Art Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

— Albert Schweitzer

To devote oneself to vigilance when the enemy is an imaginary one is idle, and to congratulate oneself for looking long and well for…

— Robert Silverberg

To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be…

— Eliphas Levi

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

— Donald Johanson

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

— Whoopi Goldberg

“We each are artists of the self, creating a collage -- a new and original work of art -- out of scraps and fragments…

— Judith Viorst

I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait.

— Pierre Huyghe

The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who…

— Terence McKenna

Artists should be self-aware of their work and their potential places in people's lives and make their decisions accordingly.

— Oliver $

Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists…

— Susan Sontag

To make a record requires a strategy; it's not just throwing somebody in the studio and seeing how it goes. Some artists are self-contained,…

— Tom Corson

“I think most historians would agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of history was small; first…

— Arthur Koestler

The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

— Ayn Rand

I'm proud, I've been working with this kind of self-sacrificing people like you.

— Islom Karimov

“I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to…

— Christopher Hitchens