Art Quote by William Butler Yeats

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great…

— John Ruskin

Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside…

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

— Thomas A. Edison

“Nothing could be less conducive to reaching an art-work than critical remarks:it's always simply a matter of more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Everything cannot…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Great art suspends the reverted eye, the lamented past, the anticipated future: we enter with it into the timeless present; we are with God…

— Ken Wilber

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

— Katherine Anne Porter

Of all the wonders that the world had to offer, only art promised immortality.

— Sergei Diaghilev

If some of the greats had followed the traditional ways we would be missing so much fine art.

— Gene Black

Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.

— Nadia Boulanger

Is it the obligation of great art to be continually interesting? I think not.

— Susan Sontag