Artis Quotes

#1. To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#2. Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

Aulus Persius Flaccus

#3. Art for art's sake.
[Lat., Ars gratia artis.]

Howard Dietz

#4. Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black.
[Lat., Furtum ingeniosus ad omne,
Qui facere assueret, patriae non degener artis,
Candida de nigris, et de candentibus atra.]

Ovid

#5. The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

Susan Sontag

#6. My struggle over the years has constantly been, it only takes 10 minutes, or an average shower, to come up with a mini-series or two, but it takes a year to draw them. So for me, it's been just trying to find a way to get all these ideas and all these incidents on paper.

Mike Mignola

#7. People could not get enough of what they had lost, even if they no longer wanted it.

Meg Wolitzer

#8. Intellect may arrive at certain inferences, but intellect is an unconsicous phenomenon. You are almost behaving sleepily. Intelligence is awakening, and unless you are fully awake, whatsoever you decide is bound to be wrong somewhere or other.

Rajneesh

#9. I want a man in my life, not in my house.

Joy Behar

#10. Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness.

H. W. Janson

#11. If I loved him enough, I reasoned, he would come home.

Artis Henderson