Amount Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture,…

— Anonymous

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperament. I have never seen, myself, why the…

— Agatha Christie

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

— Roman Payne

“Art cannot be excused from following God’s law, and art disgraces itself by seeking that freedom. Anything that cannot be put into an image…

— Abraham Kuyper

You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of…

— Joseph Conrad

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment…

— Henry Miller

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

— Iris Murdoch

“Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

— Saul Bellow

Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind.

— Qiu Miaojin

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty

— Andrei Tarkovsky