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Artistic Quotes (page 55)

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. Don DeLillo
Oscar Wilde quote: "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put..."
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. Oscar Wilde
Pauline Kael quote: "An artist must either give up art or develop."
An artist must either give up art or develop. Pauline Kael
Agatha Christie quote: "I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very..."
I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced Agatha Christie
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris."
As an artist, a man has no home in Europe save in Paris. Friedrich Nietzsche
A work of (whatever) art can either be 'received' or 'used'. When we 'receive' it we expert our senses and imagination and various other powers according the the pattern set by the artist. When we 'use' it, we treat it as assistance for our own activities. The one, to use an old-fashioned image, is like being taken for a bicycle ride by a man who may know roads we have not yet explored. The other is like adding one of those little motor attachments to our own bicycle and then going for one of... C. S. Lewis
L. Ron Hubbard quote: "A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are..."
A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists. L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard quote: "A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are..."
A civilization is as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamt by artists. L. Ron Hubbard
For everyone who, having no artistic sense-that is to say, no submission to subjective reality-may have the knack of reasoning about art till doomsday, especially if he be, in addition, a diplomat or financier in contact with the 'realities' of the present day, is only too ready to believe literature is an intellectual game which is destined to gradually be abandoned as time goes on. Marcel Proust
Vergil preferred to give a few touches, and to allow the imagination of his readers to fill out the picture: that is one reason for his almost universal appeal. He changes each of his readers into a poet or an artist. Gilbert Highet
Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside Rainer Maria Rilke
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a..."
What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift. Chuck Palahniuk
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake..."
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Thomas Merton quote: "Hurry ruins saints as well as artists."
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists. Thomas Merton
Khalil Gibran quote: "Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the..."
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes. Khalil Gibran

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