Agony Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“By seeing the multitude of people around it, by being busied with all sorts of worldly affairs, by being wise to the ways of…

— Kierkegaard

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

— Anonymous

The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is from the…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels.…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions…

— Oscar Wilde

“Amory, sorry for them, was still not sorry for himself - art, politics, religion, whatever his medium should be, he knew he was safe…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A prominent citizen in a small city State, such as Athens or Florence, could without difficulty feel himself important. The earth was the center…

— Bertrand Russell

“Is this even possible today?- But some day, in a stronger age than this decaying, self-doubting present, he must yet come to us, the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He had lost his faith in the invisible, and now prided himself, as such unfortunates invariably do, in the wisdom which rejected much that…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“There were times when he confronted his own image as a man confronts an empty valley, and the vision propelled him forward again to…

— John le Carré

“He was an artist of rare ability, a self-taught artist, without teachers or schools, principles and rules, carried away only by the thirst for…

— Nikolai Gogol

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

— Woody Allen