Art Quote by Thomas Merton

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

— Virginia Woolf

The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their…

— Phyllis McGinley

I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in…

— Thomas Merton

The Saints were not superhuman. They were people who loved God in their hearts, and who shared this joy with others.

— Pope Francis

“It was because the saints were absorbed in God that they were truly capable of seeing and appreciating created things and it was because…

— Thomas Merton

That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some of them,…

— Steven Pressfield

People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically,…

— Devendra Banhart

The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness…

— Phyllis McGinley

You think about the artists I look at as icons, and you assume they were instantly embraced. That's usually not the case. In reality,…

— Sam Hunt

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable…

— Wyndham Lewis

But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere.…

— Kurt Vonnegut