Art Quotes

"Genius is the art of concealing one's sources."

"Art requires courage and sacrifice."

"The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."

"Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness."

"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent."

"An artist's life is never going to be a well-regulated, methodical sort of thing."

"To be artistic means to participate in a kind of endless creation."

"The real thing is not the object but the emotion it evokes."

"What is any art but an effort to make a shout eternal?"

"I like your plan. We will have beauty, or we will have none."

"I would have preferred to be a mere artist, but I chose literature instead."

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

"The secret to good writing is honest observation."

"The world is different when you see it through an artist's eyes."

"A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star pulling at the night."

"I believe that all art, to some degree, is didactic. It means something."

"Talent is hereditary; it appears when least expected and with whom."

"The jazz age was not about the music; it was about the illusion of freedom."

"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of thought from every flower of experience."

"The artist speaks in a language that transcends the limitations of words."

"Real originality consists not in the plot, but in the excellence of the execution."

"The function of art is to enlarge our conception of the possible."

"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses."

"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of skill and patience."

"The artist must be willing to sacrifice comfort for the sake of creation."

"The artist who seeks approval has already compromised his art."

"The life of the arts is not necessarily found in art museums, but perhaps it is in how we live our everyday lives and our relationships with others."

"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent."

"The condition every art requires is not so much freedom as it is a little poverty and a degree of struggle."

"Artistic growth is a refining of the sense of truthfulness."