Thomas Mann Quote by Megan Mulry

“This is what the great artists manage. They flatter us, by observing better than others and then speaking to each of us as individuals…

— Tristan Gooley

“Much of what animated me in those days I now recognize as the romantic yearnings of an idealistic, alienated, and aimless young man. I…

— Stephen Batchelor

“Artists are like stars, they shine bright and after a while they fall.”

— Tim Goossens

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

“Unless we are very young or lifelong fools, we do not look to artists --- or their biographers --- for our role models. Their…

— Jesse Kornbluth

“Who knew that all you needed to pull in the rich dilettantes was an art production that ends all of reality?”

— Dennis Liggio

“I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced”

— Agatha Christie

“I think, if one is a true art lover, he can't stick to a particular genre. Art knows no partitions, no boundaries.”

— SaketKr

“The arts, the arts, the arts - I don't know why it took me so long to realize how important they are. As a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“the guy had the personality of a mannequin. But”

— I.T. Lucas

“No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”

— W. H. Auden

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

— Oscar Wilde