Apology Quote by Louise Wilder

In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.

— Louise Wilder

“The subjects range from the pastoral (sniffing of the butt of a melon to tell if it's ripe. and almost romantically lush descriptions of…

— A.M. Homes

“He admires as a lover, not as a connoisseur. To satisfy me, those characters must be united. I could not be happy with a…

— Jane Austen

“The life of an artist is not so romantic as some might suppose.”

— Kyle Muntz

Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely creative being and whose personality has been…

— Beatrice M. Hinkle

The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating…

— Garry Wills

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

— Federico Fellini

“There is always a mysterious conflict in every artist; if life treats him roughly he longs for peace and calm, but if he comes…

— Stefan Zweig

“The writer in him is only the shadow of the man, though so often we observe men whose art of writing is so great,…

— Stefan Zweig

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

— Voltaire

“Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead…

— Lawrence Durrell