Art Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courting that darkness is real privilege of art.

— Fred Hechinger

“Artistic talent is like a brilliant firework which streaks across a pitch-black night, inspiring awe among onlookers but extinguishing itself in seconds, leaving behind…

— Alain de Botton

There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies.…

— Martin McDonagh

What excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is…

— William James

Art should exhilarate, and throw down the walls of circumstance on every side, awakening in the beholder the same sense of universal relation and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is a leap into the dark.

— Pablo Picasso

After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of…

— Albert Camus

“Darkness has conquered the day; the arms of the night slapped the living daylight off the day.Gripping. Killing. Totally overwhelming. The taste of darkness…

— Chika Onyenezi

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our…

— Henry James

In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that…

— Azar Nafisi

“We maintain, therefore, that the first essential, the life and soul, so to speak, of Tragedy is the Plot; and that the Characters come…

— Aristotle

“Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.”

— Anonymous