Art Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must…

— Paul Cezanne

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens…

— Loren Eiseley

Very few men can be genuinely happy in a life involving continual self-assertion against the skepticism of the mass of mankind, unless they can…

— Bertrand Russell

“The artist who is too sensitive for contacts with the non-artistic world is thereby too sensitive for his vocation, and fit only to fall…

— Arnold Bennett

There is art in taking time to appreciate the clean wash of the mind's silence.

— Dan Wakefield

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with it's painful crudity and hopeless dreariness

— Albert Einstein

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

— Loren Eiseley

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness,…

— Albert Einstein

“Though his rivals at the competition were well trained, there was something different about Van’s art. For many in the audience it represented the…

— Stuart Isacoff

“He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have…

— Marcel Proust

“How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they…

— Isaac Asimov

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson