Art Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

“Pursuing an artistic existence can let you experience emotions you wouldn’t know otherwise. It gives you hope and helps you see the beauty in…

— Pantelis Kassotis

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

— Anselm Kiefer

Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist.

— Kent Nerburn

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The love of art in its many forms lives on and enables us to enjoy the past, the present, and look with confidence to…

— John Kurtz

“longing for our idealized images of life separates us from our true selves and from our true callings.”

— Stephen Cope

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its…

— Oscar Wilde

“Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles…

— Hector Berlioz

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live

— Remy de Gourmont

“To be an artist today is such an act of faith: nothing can come back from it except the satisfaction of the art itself.”

— Truman Capote

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things…

— Orhan Pamuk

It seems to me that the desire to make art produces an ongoing experience of longing, a restlessness sometimes, but not inevitably, played out…

— Louise Glück