Art Quote by Paul Elie

“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“It seemed to him that the hand was not able to attain to the perfection of art in carrying out the things which he…

— Walter Isaacson

“Art is the unique work of a human being, work that touches another.”

— Seth Godin

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

— Leo Tolstoy

“Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium. — HENRI MATISSE”

— Jack Flam

“The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring…

— James Joyce

“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In other words, art is a realm entirely separated from the interests of real life-a refuge for detached and gifted souls from sordid political…

— DeWitt Henry Parker

The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I have seen the paintings from the air brushed by the hand of God.”

— Lonestar

“Beneath the bleeding hands we feel / The sharp compassion of the healer’s art.”

— Dean Koontz

“We are all of us, every one, our own works; we present our souls to our Patrons at the ends of our lives as…

— Lois McMaster Bujold