Art Quote by Samuel Barber Download Open image “How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society,” — Samuel Barber ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Awful Dinner Mint
I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
When something is just bad, it's often because it is too mediocre in its ambition. The artist hasn't attempted to do anything really outlandish. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No… — Georg Baselitz Copy Share Image
I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic. — Questlove Copy Share Image
“Artists are agents of chaos. It is the artists job to encourage entropy, to promote chaos. Idols must be killed, icons crushed, beliefs shattered.… — Jonathan Culver Copy Share Image
... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Any artist who fails to engage with society and the vulnerability of the individual in a cruel existence should not style him-or herself an… — Lena Andersson Copy Share Image
I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't. — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story. — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible. — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest… — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that. — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of… — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a… — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go… — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a new style every year. This,… — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed. — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand. — Samuel Barber Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
