Adults Quote by Thomas M. Disch

“Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed in the…

— Rex Stout

Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration…

— Jacques Maritain

Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire.

— Jewel

When a man makes a poem, makes it, mind you, he takes words as he finds them interrelated about him and composes them -…

— William Carlos Williams

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently…

— Oscar Wilde

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

— Anthony Burgess

Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it.

— Edgar Degas

The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and…

— Carl Jung

“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet,…

— Oscar Wilde

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he…

— Oscar Wilde

Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage, circumstances and…

— Francisco Goya

“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life…

— Oscar Wilde