Art Quote by Simon Raven Download Open image “Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.” — Simon Raven ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Money Sake
I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs. — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do. — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and… — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early… — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of… — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948. — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal. — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
“In becoming the universe God abdicated. He destroyed himself as God. He turned what he had been, his true self, into nullity and thereby… — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better. — Simon Raven Copy Share Image
“Dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.” — Simon Raven 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
