Art Quotes

"Art is the evidence that humanity has not abandoned the search for meaning and transcendence."

"The Spider as an Artist has never been employed."

"To write with genius requires the sacrifice of ordinary peace."

"Art should elevate the soul beyond the mundane circumstances of existence."

"The artist's curse is seeing beauty in all suffering."

"Manhattan streets with their powerful throbs, as I pass."

"To know how to say what others only think is to be a poet."

"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment."

"The artist who has nothing to say should refrain from speaking through his work."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"Rings of rhyme round the center of grace."

"The most perfect writer is he who remains true to his vision."

"The work of art is the expression of the soul."

"The artist is a bridge between worlds."

"I worship at the altar of beauty and truth."

"The artist must be willing to bleed for his vision."

"Publication is the auction of the mind of man."

"His bill is clasped, his eye is shut, his feathers trimmed until."

"Art is the soul's way of speaking to the world."

"Art is the effort of man to express and to communicate the beauty he perceives in nature."

"Frankly, I don't see how a man can write unless he's willing to commit social suicide."

"Art is the language that the soul speaks when words fail."

"The greatest art speaks to the soul without words."

"Art has a power over life and death."

"No great work of art ever resulted from a committee."

"I love the dead weight of it in my hands."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"The creation of art is the highest form of human expression."

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

"Art teaches nothing except the significance of life."