Art Quote by Yukio Mishima

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so…

— Yukio Mishima

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art. ”

— E.M. Forster

“Although a man be not a painter, he may have just opinions of the forms of men.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Art is the one thing man creates not out of need or luxury; therefore, it is the purest essence of his individuality.”

— Anthony Paolucci

“We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism - it will either be partisan views, fossilized and made meaningless in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“There is far more to this existence than how men have defined it through the exhibition of their limitations.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“As a man's knowledge grows, and his power increases, the road he takes grows ever narrower, until at last he does only and wholly…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“All art begins with a groping after form, then attains form, and then emancipates itself from too great insistence upon rigidity of form without,…

— Gustav Kobbé

“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.”

— Joseph Conrad

“The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity.”

— Ralph Ellison