Art Quote by Paul Goodman

If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it's just perfecting something.

— Timothy Spall

That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation.…

— Oscar Wilde

Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason

— Herbert Marcuse

The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us…

— Margaret Halsey

“Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us…

— Oscar Wilde

“The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.”

— Mark Simpson

“The artist striving for truth or sincerity had to guard his spontaneous vision against distortion or alteration by aesthetic conventions or preconceptions.”

— Linda Nochlin

“Thus discernment, artistic or otherwise, is a critical skill, and yet it can be something we take for granted, in part because we do…

— Kevin Simler

“At present, I am particularly excited by "bad taste." I have the deep feeling that there exists in the very essence of bad taste…

— Yves Klein

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

— Roman Payne

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.

— Angel Haze

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson