Art Quote by Ludwig van Beethoven

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their…

— Donald Miller

No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools…

— Thomas Otway

“Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by…

— Amélie Nothomb

But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of whichhe is not always mastersomething that at times strangely wills…

— Charlotte Brontë

No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always remain deprived…

— Derek R. Audette

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses the influence…

— Samuel Johnson

This world is ugly, and it's supposed to be, and it has to be in order for art to lead to grandness and beauty.

— Shawn Crahan

Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor. I wed…

— Rosa Bonheur

People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves…

— Bill Watterson

“If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the rise of a trout to the tied fly, is the purest form of flattering…

— R.E. Long

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.

— Allan Kaprow