Architecture Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is a jealous mistress.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is a jealous thing; it requires the whole and entire man.

— Michelangelo

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

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

— Philip Roth

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

— Albrecht Durer

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand…

— Charlotte Saunders Cushman

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability

— Shinichi Suzuki

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

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

— Tracey Emin

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind…

— Leo Tolstoy

There's a point at which when I start to know a man well--this isn't true of women--I wonder whether there's something in him that's…

— Kathy Acker