Art Quote by Orson Scott Card

“However, the real beauty is not in the words themselves, but in the listener that has the power to understand them.”

— Luis Marques

“It is neither wise nor honest to detract from beauty as a quality. There cannot be a refined soul insensible to its influence.”

— Lew Wallace

“had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would…

— Oscar Wilde

“The artist is a constructor of mirrors through which humanity can recognize their own beauty.”

— Manuela Nicolini

“I wonder if it matters that what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an idea that…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“We are talking about an artist; What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out…

— G.K. Chesterton

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is done them.”

— Marcel Proust

“If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“He can be so appreciative of all forms of art, but so matter-of-fact and unemotional about it.”

— Dodie Smith

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

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“The power of beauty is that it encapsulates all the bitter sweet elements and mirrors them back as a breathtaking masterpiece.”

— Wayne Chirisa