Art Quote by Lewis Hyde

Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma and ignorance.

— Donovan

All art is a gift. It is first of all a gift that the maker can do it. It is then a gift to…

— Vincent Van Gogh

I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the genuine indirectness…

— Graham Cray

“Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the…

— Rainer M. Rilke

Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“The supreme gift of an artist is the knowledge of when to stop.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“We may not have the power to profess our gifts as the artist does, and yet we come to recognize, and in a sense…

— Lewis Hyde

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world…

— James Lee Burke

“These artists pay little attention to an encircling present that bears no direct relation to the world of work in which they live, and…

— Thomas Mann

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not…

— Lawrence Durrell

“Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in…

— John Green

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.

— Edward Weston