Art Quote by Victor J. Banis Download Open image ““Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.”” — Victor J. Banis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Excellence Mediocrity Writer Writing
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Well, nothing helps an artist’s career more than a little death and obscurity, I always say.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Every artist thus keeps within himself a single source which nourishes during his lifetime what he is and what he says.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.” — Jan Pinkava Ratatouille Copy Share Image
“...It is a well known fact that most artists produce their best work early in their career. They may refine what they do but… — Bill Drummond Copy Share Image
“It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“No genuine artist views himself as superior in essence to others.” — Laurence G. Boldt Copy Share Image
“Eventually, you get tired of seeing mediocre talent succeed, so you work as hard as they do.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The first creation of every artist is getting carved from the best moments of his life!!” — Nelson Jack Copy Share Image
“I think this guy’s dead,” the coroner said, scooting another inch or two, to be safe. “There’s something wrong here,” Tom said. They both… — Victor J. Banis Copy Share Image
“We live surrounded by God's pattern but we aren't high enough to see it. You can elevate yourself, of course. That's the whole point… — Victor J. Banis Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter what the question is, Alex, the answer is always love” — Victor J. Banis Copy Share Image
“I wasn't the smartest kid in town but I've always thought if you hang around with smart people some of it's bound to rub… — Victor J. Banis Copy Share Image
“A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal… — Victor J. Banis Copy Share Image
“Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.” — Victor J. Banis Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image