Art Quote by Thomas Carlyle

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.…

— Marilynne Robinson

But mad people never die. That's a well-known fact. They've nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.

— Anthony Trollope

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth

— Ray Bradbury

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.

— Eric Maisel

All art is made from anger.

— Lawrence Weiner

Put crudely, one is left with a choice between two unsatisfactory combinations: artistic integrity married to spiritual compromise; and spiritual integrity married to artistic…

— John Walford

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

— George Santayana

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell…

— Anonymous

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of…

— Anonymous

A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs.

— Gary L. Thomas