Art Quote by Michael Grant

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He…

— William Faulkner

“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

“Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime”

— Theodor Adorno

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

— Leo Tolstoy

“...art is made by the alone for the alone… The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication...”

— Cyril Connolly

“At first my father didn't like Art, but after he got to know him better he really hated him.”

— Joe Hill

“No...he lives to create art, but he loves to murder.”

— Mo Beija

“Art is like fruit, owing out of man—like the child out of its mother.”

— Hans Arp

“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not…

— Chaim Potok

“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

“Every artist thus keeps within himself a single source which nourishes during his lifetime what he is and what he says.”

— Albert Camus

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does “what he does for one reason and one reason…

— Alma Gluck