Art Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty…

— W. Somerset Maugham

This world is ugly, and it's supposed to be, and it has to be in order for art to lead to grandness and beauty.

— Shawn Crahan

...The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A…

— J. Paul Getty

After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of…

— Albert Camus

Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are…

— Agnes Martin

“Beauty could be defined simply as 'that which pleases.' But there is another aspect to art, and that... is the sublime. Like the mushroom…

— Jen Wang

All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart,…

— Pope Benedict XVI

That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity…

— Oscar Wilde

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us…

— Oscar Wilde

Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington

— W. Somerset Maugham