Art Quote by Max Nordau Download Open image “The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.” — Max Nordau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Burden Dance Feelings Ideas Mind Music making Paint Painting Psychology Writing
The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known.… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of… — Graham Collier Copy Share Image
...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than… — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
An artist’s work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and focusing on… — Teresita Fernandez Copy Share Image
Hysteria and degeneration have always existed; but they formerly showed themselves sporadically, and had no importance in the life of the whole community. It… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
“Degenerates are not always criminals, anarchists, and pronounced lunatics; They are often authors and artists.” — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
How dare the smooth talkers, the clever official blabbers, open their mouths and boast of progress. . . . Here they hold jubilant peace… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Let me tell you the following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward and upward: Herzl; the… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a dozen quire… — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
The first condition a community should set, if it aspires to be a nation, is to own the land whereon it lives, and supply… — Max Nordau 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