Art Quote by Nelsan Ellis

The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.

— Anton Ehrenzweig

“I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one…

— Criss Jami

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

— Marcel Proust

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

— Isaac Asimov

The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is from the…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

There is no comparison between him and me; he developed a whole new way of making art and he's clearly in a league of…

— Tracey Emin

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

— George Santayana

Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

— Max Jacob

“We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I put my genius into my life, not into my art.”

— Christopher Isherwood

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

— Amy Lowell

Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

— John Chamberlain