Art Quote by William Dean Howells

The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines…

— James Joyce

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the…

— J. G. Holland

God is nothing but creativity. So wherever there is a sign of creativity, God has a signature there. He has already been there. Maybe…

— Rajneesh

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

— Lascelles Abercrombie

The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.

— D.T. Suzuki

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this…

— Pope John Paul II

“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes…

— Plato

Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.

— El Greco

One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God…

— Henry de Montherlant

Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness.

— Sandra Bowden

“The light of artistic creation is also blinding. The artist can’t see the suffering he causes to those around him. And the’ll never understand…

— Ian McEwan