Art Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.”

— Oscar Wilde

“...I knew he had something that so many of my other students were lacking... desire. Not just the desire to create because for an…

— Darian North

“Art is sanctioned pornography”

— Stewart Home

“I should like to direct the attention of artists. A constant producer, a man who is a "mother" in the grand sense of the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most of present…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Regardless of its quality, no one wants to destroy what they created after so many sleepless nights. This is what distinguishes an artist from…

— Abhaidev

“An artist can't let madness stop him from making art, he simply has to channel it.”

— Christopher Moore

Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not…

— Salvador Dali

“...the special quality of works of Art being to produce the momentary conviction that anything else whatever could not possibly be so good.”

— M.P. Shiel

“An artist does not have to think about what he is doing.”

— Irving Stone

“As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality.”

— Sarah Cross

“artists have sex but art has none”

— Oscar Wilde