Art Quote by Shana Alexander

“Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. Don't you think? It is a kind of talent…

— Ann Patchett

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to…

— Ezra Pound

The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to…

— Ernest Hemingway

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into…

— Ezra Pound

First and foremost an artist should pay homage to grandness, honour and bow to it, and not try to extinguish the fierce flames of…

— Felix Mendelssohn

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

True artists pursue greatness in craft in order to give the Lord the best fruit of the talent He has given them, not to…

— Charlie Peacock

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

— Aldous Huxley

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

— Guy de Maupassant

Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are formed by…

— Germaine Greer

Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness.

— Sandra Bowden

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great…

— John Ruskin