Art Quote by Thomas Mann

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying…

— Thomas Mann

After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of…

— Albert Camus

“There is beauty in every incident of life; the true and the false, the wise and the foolish, are all one in the eye…

— Aleister Crowley

“As, in useful art, so far as it is useful, the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature, so as to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom…

— Oscar Wilde

“In art vanity is equally fatal to sympathetic feeling, whether on the part of the artist or the public.”

— Kakuzō Okakura

“Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us…

— Oscar Wilde

“Every talent, every feeling, every acquirement; nay, even every tendency towards virtue, was used up as materials for fireworks; the hidden, sacred fire, exhausted…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“I'm beginning to see that there's a difference between art that trusts beauty's simple power to point people to God and Christian art that's…

— Ian Morgan Cron

“Part of what attracts us to artists is their otherness, their refusal to conform, their big middle finger stuck up in the face of…

— Jesse Kellerman

“Art has something to do with beauty. The act of creating beauty pulls the portion of your soul to the surface that is true…

— Timothy Simpson

“Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If such obvious arrogance is not counterbalanced by…

— Amélie Nothomb