Art Quote by Witold Gombrowicz Download Open image “Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.” — Witold Gombrowicz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Artist Respects Emigre Respects Respects Ought Term Term Emigre
I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
My notion about any artist is that we honor him best by reading him, by playing his music, by seeing his plays or by… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist. — Roger Ballen Copy Share Image
Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves. — Isaac Hanson Copy Share Image
“Any artist who fails to engage with society and the vulnerability of the individual in a cruel existence should not style him-or herself an… — Lena Andersson Copy Share Image
“If you were to stare at this box of matches, you could extract entire worlds out of it. If you search for tastes in… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“My literature must remain that which it is. Especially that something which does not fit into politics and does not want to serve it.… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“Joey, it's high time, dear child. What will people say? If you don't want to be a doctor, at least be a womanizer, or… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“Why, my man is created from the outside, that is, he is inauthentic in essence- he is always not-himself, because he is determined by… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough. — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“Many a beauty in her own room behaves repulsively till one splits one's sides.” — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act. — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“Cóż wy wiecie o triumfie, który pozwala rozkoszować się własną niedojrzałością i jest jednocześnie jej wyswobodzeniem i przezwyciężeniem?” — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“(…) jest naiwnością mniemanie, jakoby zachwyt nasz wobec dzieła sztuki z nas samych pochodził: że zachwyt ten w sporej mierze nie rodzi się z… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
“Wielka Poezja będąc wielką i będąc poezją nie może nie zachwycać nas, a więc zachwyca!” — Witold Gombrowicz 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