Accomplish Quote by William Butler Yeats

“Even the wisest man grows tense/with some sort of violence/before he can accomplish fate,/know his work or choose his mate.”

— Yeats

The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with…

— Gore Vidal

Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

— William Butler Yeats

And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain…

— Albert Camus

As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose of communication.…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

— Franz Grillparzer

The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.

— Marshall McLuhan

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

— Albrecht Durer

The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.

— Eric Maisel

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which…

— Paul Cezanne

“There is always a mysterious conflict in every artist; if life treats him roughly he longs for peace and calm, but if he comes…

— Stefan Zweig

“…man never regards what he possesses as so much his own, as what he does; and the labourer who tends a garden is perhaps…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt