Art Quote by Mark Simpson Download Open image ““The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.”” — Mark Simpson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Morrissey Sulking Temperament
“...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 Copy Share Image
“In art vanity is equally fatal to sympathetic feeling, whether on the part of the artist or the public.” — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
“Art is, in its purity, an aesthetic means of expression in a time of rising neglect.” — Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Copy Share Image
“An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is done them.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Nothing really at any period of my life was ever of the smallest importance to me compared with Art. But in the case of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination. ” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In a spornographic age it’s no longer enough for the male body to be presented to us by consumerism as merely attractive, or desiring… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“Nearly thirty years on, despite Pejic’s unpopularity with some feminists and the closet-cases who write for US FHM, 1980s Marilyn and his shameless, shining… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“In the 21st century men’s tits have not just rivalled but replaced women’s as the touchstone of ‘sexy’ in mainstream pop culture, even when… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“Contrary to what you have been told, metrosexuality is not about flip-flops and facials, ‘man-bags’ or ‘manscara’. Or about men becoming ‘girlie’ or ‘gay’.… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“Of course, fashions come and go but metrosexuality isn’t a fashion – it’s an epoch. It represents a fundamental shift in what men are… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“There’s a famous quote which goes something like, ‘You are what you are, having secretly become what you wanted to be’. Maybe there’s some… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“The typical metrosexual is a young man with money to spend, living in or within easy reach of a metropolis — because that’s where… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“Is there a support group for people who didn’t like ‘Brokeback Mountain’? We must, if the rave reviews and the newspaper reports are to… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“At the dawn of the second decade of the Twenty First Century, masculinity has been rendered so self-conscious in our mediated, mirrored world that… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“Arguably, poor Oscar was merely an early failed and somewhat overweight prototype for Morrissey.” — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
“The world does not need a ‘gay Elvis’, for the original, with his black leather suit, pomaded pompadour, come-fuck-me eyes and radiant narcissism, was… — Mark Simpson Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
