Art Quote by Philip Roth

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must…

— Philip Roth

The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.

— Quentin Bell

Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short…

— Hilaire Belloc

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of…

— Oscar Wilde

What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a…

— Jasper Johns

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

— Paul Cezanne

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to…

— Richard Schmid

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

— Roman Payne

Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him - may be…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson