Art Quote by Walter Sickert Download Open image “The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.” — Walter Sickert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Flowers Ordinary Rose
The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful. — George Bellows Copy Share Image
An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass. — Heinrich Böll Copy Share Image
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else. — John Updike Copy Share Image
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind. — Max Nordau Copy Share Image
Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash. — Walter Sickert Copy Share Image
To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious. — Walter Sickert Copy Share Image
On a series of apparently tiresome, flat sittings seeming to lead nowhere - one day something happens, the touches seem to 'take', the deaf… — Walter Sickert Copy Share Image
Cezanne was fated, as his passion was immense, to be immensely neglected, immensely misunderstood, and now, I think, immensely overrated. — Walter Sickert Copy Share Image
Photography, like alcohol, should only be allowed to those who can do without it. — Walter Sickert Copy Share Image
Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the… — Walter Sickert 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