Art Quote by Voltaire Download Open image ““You must have the Devil in you to succeed in any of the arts”” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Arts Success
“The arts..are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in life there comes a time when one has to dance with the devil” — Mwangala kamwi joshua Copy Share Image
“Art is a spirit and soul thing. Anything else is mere desperation.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The devil had not only acquired a monopoly of the good music and the good fun, but has of late acquired a controlling interest… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“If you want a moral, here it is: what god giveth, he taketh away. In this story art is god. And if god is… — Jeet Thayil Copy Share Image
“And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.” — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
“I’m convinced that the arts could be something of a higher power.” — Veronika Carnaby Copy Share Image
“Art is one of the few places where talent and madness can actually go to squirrel away inside each other.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire 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
