"That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen."
Read quote
3 likes
Art quotes
Art
22.1K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Art
Browse quotes that often appear alongside art — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Art quotes (page 303 of 1107)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight."
Read quote
3 likes
"Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon."
Read quote
3 likes
"Sleep is no mean art."
Read quote
3 likes
"Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight."
Read quote
3 likes
"It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention."
Read quote
3 likes
"Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment."
Read quote
3 likes
"I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?"
Read quote
3 likes
"The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech."
Read quote
3 likes
"There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary."
Read quote
3 likes
"It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves."
Read quote
3 likes
"It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---"
Read quote
3 likes
"And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams."
Read quote
3 likes
"A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty."
Read quote
3 likes
"If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary to have clearly before you what you require . . . It is certainly tasteless and inconsistent to desire to encompass the world with a garden-wall, but very practicable and reasonable to make a garden . . . into a characteristic whole to the eye, heart, and nderstanding alike."
Read quote
3 likes
"Toil of science swells the wealth of art."
Read quote
3 likes
"Life is earnest, art is gay."
Read quote
3 likes
"Art is the right hand of Nature."
Read quote
3 likes
"I myself will perhaps cry out with all the rest, looking at the mother embracing her child's tormentor: 'Just art thou, O Lord!' but I do not want to cry out with them. While there's still time, I hasten to defend myself against it, and therefore I absolutely renounce all higher harmony. It is not worth one little tear of even that one tormented child who beat her chest with her little fist and prayed to 'dear God' in a stinking outhouse with her unredeemed tears!"
Read quote
3 likes
"No, I can't admit it. Brother,' said Alyosha suddenly, with flashing eyes, 'you said just now, is there a being in the whole world who would have the right to forgive and could firgive? But there is a Being and He can forgive everything, all and for all, because He gave His innocent blood for all and everything. You have forgotten Him, and on Him is built the edifice, and it is to Him they cry aloud, "Thou art just, O Lord, for Thy ways are revealed!"
Read quote
3 likes