Art Quote by Leguin, Ursula Download Open image ““Is it any wonder that no truly respectable society has ever trusted its artists?”” — Leguin, Ursula ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art
“Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore the most dangerous.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is done them.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I don't think there's any artist of any value that does not doubt what they're doing.” — Francis Coppola Copy Share Image
“No genuine artist views himself as superior in essence to others.” — Laurence G. Boldt Copy Share Image
“Well, nothing helps an artist’s career more than a little death and obscurity, I always say.” — Dan Simmons 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
“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
“But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.” — William S. Burroughs 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
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
