Best artist & delight Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.”

Source: The Portable Conrad

“I was always aware, reading Chesterton, that there was someone writing this who rejoiced in words, who deployed them on the page as an artist deploys his paints upon his palette. Behind every Chesterton sentence there was someone painting with words, and it seemed to me that at the end of any particularly good sentence or any perfectly-put paradox, you could hear the author, somewhere behind the scenes, giggling with delight.”

Writing Ends Joy Artist Reading Behinds Scene Pages Paint Delight Sentences Paradox Behind The Scenes Palette

Book:The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

Source: The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence.”

Men Artist Existence Delight Vitality Respectable

Book:Blast

Source: Blast

“In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use) If you approve it not, has no excuse.”

People Ifs May Made Play Use Artist Acting Knowing Judging Delight Excuse No Excuses

Book:The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. From Mr. Fenton's Quarto Edition, 1729. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait.]

Source: The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. From Mr. Fenton's Quarto Edition, 1729. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait.]

“If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.”

Ifs Wells Art Artist Excellence Sake Delight Artist Love

Book:Lectures on Art, and Poems

Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems

“Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.”

Firsts Artist Found Type Mets Pages Delight Intense Flash Collecting Collectors Flash Gordon

Author:Joe Shuster

“And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.”

Feels Should Joy Artist Gains Delight Available Myth Our Society Palette

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have watched a great artist perform, and never richer than when I have scored a big check to fight AIDS.”

Children Bigs Artist Fighting Felt Alive Delight Aids Checks My Children Great Art Great Artist

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

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