Art Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

— Steven Pressfield

But the muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.

— Anonymous

... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she…

— Oscar Wilde

Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.

— Robert Genn

An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.

— Maria Semple

Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

— Dante Alighieri

“In the oppressive future artists will be the last rebels, Muses will be their deity”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

— Alexander Pope

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

— Quintilian

“THE VIRTUE TRAP An artist must have downtime, time to do nothing. Defending our right to such time takes courage, conviction, and resiliency. Such…

— Julia Cameron