Art Quote by Louis Riel

“Great sleepless artists who had to die for a few hours in order to live for centuries.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“When You Let your Human Sleep your 'Spirit' Awakens.”

— Syed Sharukh

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

The evolution of our spirit is blazed on the dark background of eternity by our individual wakes. Every person can, if he/she wishes, leave…

— Bertrand Russell

I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space, and of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.

— Hetti Perkins

When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.

— Billy Sunday

As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.

— Victoria Legrand

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

— John French Sloan

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.

— Omari Hardwick

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every…

— Martin Luther King, Jr