Art Quote by Thomas Mann

“The soul of an artist is a tortured one, forever capturing their version of reality.”

— Belinda Taylor

“The true artist has no pride. He sees unfortunately that art has no limits; he has a vague awareness of how far he is…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“Any artist is insulted by the suggestion that art is merely a matter of recording reality, and knows that it is impossible to explain…

— Joan Lindsay

“Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search…

— Barbra Streisand

“The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“BECOMING AN ARTIST IS A RECKLESS ACT OF INSANITY. BUT, IF I MAY QUOTE A PLAY THAT I THINK MIGHT BE A FAVORITE OF…

— Dana Schwartz

“An artist can't let madness stop him from making art, he simply has to channel it.”

— Christopher Moore

“Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal… unnable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself.…

— Jean Cocteau

“The artist’s secret lies in fear and awe. Our times have turned them into terror and dismay.”

— Hugo Ball

“The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existance”

— Woody Allen

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

— Isaac Asimov

“The goal of the artist is not to solve a question irrefutably, but to force people to love life in all its countless, inexhaustible…

— Leo Tolstoy