Art Quote by Neville Weston

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is…

— Laura Riding

“And yet the point of view from which his ideas on art had sprung was a simple one: for him, literary schools did not…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“To create works of art meant no less to him than to paint life, not mere reality, but the principle of life.”

— Ingo Walther

“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

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Life and Art, once entwined, can quickly become inseparable”

— David Bayles Art and Fear Observations on the Perils and Rewards of Artmaking

“The novelist might be greater possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and…

— William Dean Howells

“In art as in experience, everyday life may be with us at the start but remains fugitive to the very end.”

— Joseph Leo Koerner

“What modern art required was an imagination drawn to possibilities, rather than braced by smug presumptions.”

— Meredith Duran

“An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“The reader must not imagine that he is to find in it wisdom, brilliancy, fertility of invention, ingenuity of construction, excellence of form, purity…

— Mark Twain

“he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it…

— Douglas Adams