Art Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to His humanity.

— W. Ian Thomas

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider…

— Charles Darwin

Although the works of the Creator may be in themselves all equally perfect, the animal is, as I see it, the most complete work…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability…

— Plato

I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally, I don't…

— Marcel Duchamp

Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the…

— Jerry Saltz

Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he did be…

— Robert Penn Warren

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

— Thomas Love Peacock

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique…

— Storm Jameson

In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to…

— Andre Malraux

“If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so…

— H.L. Mencken