Art Quote by Oscar Wilde

“He was an artist of rare ability, a self-taught artist, without teachers or schools, principles and rules, carried away only by the thirst for…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“His soul had loved to muse in secret on this desire. He had seen himself, a young and silent-mannered priest, entering a confessional swiftly,…

— James Joyce

“Through art we discover that we are not alone.”

— Arnold Weinstein

“He was out there alone with himself, composed, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart to the serenity of the skies, moved in…

— Victor Hugo

“Because there is beauty and there is art that celebrates it like a secret language, I was reassured and connected to something greater than…

— Elizabeth Garden

“For me, art is the desire to preserve the intangible feeling of such a moment, hidden in all the littlest details, and then to…

— Rachel Hartman

“...he knew of the innermost danger of all artists, he knew the utter loneliness of the man destined to be an artist, he knew…

— Hermann Broch

“I watched him carefully. He was making art because he has to, and because he's brave enough to try and make contact, right there…

— Anne Lamott

“Like all solitary persons he had invested friendship with a divine glamour: he imagined that the people he passed on the street, laughing together…

— Thornton Wilder

“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible,…

— Simona Panova

“He swore by all that he ever had loved and reverenced that he would try, try with all his might in the short time…

— Gene Stratton-Porter