Arts Quote by Marcel Proust

“When a man is commonplace in discussion yet valued for what he writes that shows that his talents lie in his borrowed sources not…

— Michel de Montaigne

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“It was yet another example of Jobs consciously positioning himself at the intersection of the arts and technology. In all of his products, technology…

— Walter Isaacson

“A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“More than anyone I’d ever met, he seemed to participate in life as if it were art, and to practice a studied, careful carefreeness.…

— Joshua Foer

“Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of he sort…

— Bertrand Russell

“What does it avail, one will say, that this man has so much talent, that he is so active therewith, and that he exerts…

— Immanuel Kant

“His talent sprang from his unrivaled independence of mind and ability to focus on his work and shut out the world, yet those same…

— Roger Lowenstein

“It is an old remark, that all arts and sciences have a mutual dependence upon each other... Thus men, very different in genius and…

— Mark Kurlansky

“He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.”

— Mary Shelley

“It is a good lesson--though it may often be a hard one--for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“One that has well digested his knowledge both of books and men, has little enjoyment but in the company of a few select companions.…

— David Hume