Art Quote by Wyndham Lewis

I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to…

— Tavares Strachan

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

artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.

— Phyllis Bottome

Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.

— Sara Genn

My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a…

— Lykke Li

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and…

— Marvin Gaye

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

— Sandra Bowden

Art is the escape from personality.

— T. S. Eliot

If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide…

— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble…

— George Santayana

Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison…

— Kurt Vonnegut