Art Quote by Victor Hugo

“I always thought that if I suffered enough in service of Art, if I laid down my life to please the world, I could…

— Amelia Gray

“Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.”

— Anonymous

“I think, in art, it is as noble a thing as to to try to make people happy, to help them escape, as it…

— Lucy Foley

“Whatever in a work of art is not used, is doing harm.”

— C.S. Lewis

“That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

“...I did hate those people...those false artists whose work consists of the poses they strike: saying outrageous things, cultivating complicated tastes and appetites, being…

— Mario De Sa-carneiro

“Art is a spirit and soul thing. Anything else is mere desperation.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“That a thing is hated is not proof that it’s great art, but the lack of hatred is certainly proof that it is not.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Perhaps the measure of the best art is that it does not excite envy.”

— Norman Mailer

“All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.”

— William Saroyan