“A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.”— Edmond de Goncourt Related Quotes “Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”– George Jean Nathan “The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”— Ursula K. Le Guin “You have no control over how your story begins or ends. But by now, you should know that all things have an ending. Every spark returns to darkness. Every sound returns to silence. Every flower returns to sleep with the earth. The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate art.”— Suzy Kassem