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Art and the Artist QuotesFamous Art and the Artist quotes by popular authors such as Pablo Picasso, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Vincent van Gogh, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Santayana and others.
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[highlight-text]Art for art's sake.
Victor Cousin
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[highlight-text]The song of the brush.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text]Art is a delayed echo.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]Art is I; science is we.
Claude Bernard
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[highlight-text]Art is a kind of illness.
Giacomo Puccini
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[highlight-text]All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]It's clever but is it art?
Rudyard Kipling
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[highlight-text]Caricature is rough truth.
George Meredith
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[highlight-text]Art upsets science reassures.
Georges Braque
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[highlight-text]Sex is the great amateur art.
David Cort
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[highlight-text]There is but one art to omit.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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[highlight-text]We live in a rainbow of chaos.
Paul Cezanne
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[highlight-text]What is art but a way of seeing?
Saul Bellow
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[highlight-text]A work of art is an exaggeration.
Andre Gide
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[highlight-text]A picture is a poem without words.
Horace
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[highlight-text]Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
Ben Jonson
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[highlight-text]The scholar seeks the artist finds.
Andre Gide
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[highlight-text]All art is but imitation of nature.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]Everything you can imagine is real.
Pablo Picasso
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[highlight-text]Art is the lie that tells the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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[highlight-text]Of all lies art is the least untrue.
Gustave Flaubert
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[highlight-text]Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.
Pablo Picasso
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[highlight-text]All art is a revolt against man's fate.
Andri Malraux
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[highlight-text]Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin
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[highlight-text]Art is difficult transient is her reward.
J. C. F. von Schiller
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[highlight-text]Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
Philip James Bailey
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[highlight-text]I think the idea of art kills creativity.
Douglas Adams
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[highlight-text]Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
T. S. Eliot
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[highlight-text]Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.
Simon Raven
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[highlight-text]The object of art is to give life a shape.
Jean Anouilh
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[highlight-text]Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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[highlight-text]Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Henry Kissinger
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[highlight-text]Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]I'm an ice sculptor - last night I made a cube.
Mitch Hedberg
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[highlight-text]Art is the expression of an enormous preference.
Wyndham Lewis
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[highlight-text]All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
Clement Greenberg
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[highlight-text]I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
Madonna Ciccone
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[highlight-text]In life as in art the beautiful moves in curves.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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[highlight-text]Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
Jean Paul Richter
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[highlight-text]It's not what you see that is art art is the gap.
Marcel Duchamp
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[highlight-text]The urge for destruction is also a creative urge.
Mikhail Bakunin
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[highlight-text]Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
John Donne
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[highlight-text]Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.
Edgar Degas
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[highlight-text]All good art is about something deeper than it admits.
Roger Ebert
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[highlight-text]The fingers must be educated the thumb is born knowing.
Marc Chagall
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[highlight-text]Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
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[highlight-text]The artist does not see things as they are but as he is.
Alfred Tonnelle
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[highlight-text]Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
Susan Sontag
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[highlight-text]It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
Michelangelo
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[highlight-text]Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]Art like morality consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]Still there is a calm pure harmony and music inside of me.
Vincent van Gogh
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[highlight-text]One must work nothing but work and one must have patience.
Auguste Rodin
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[highlight-text]Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso
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[highlight-text]Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci
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[highlight-text]An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie
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[highlight-text]Art is not an end in itself but a means of addressing humanity.
M. P. Moussorgsky
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[highlight-text]Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes it visible.
Paul Klee
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[highlight-text]An artist never really finishes his work he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
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[highlight-text]I always suspect an artist who is successful before he is dead.
John Murray Gibbon
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[highlight-text]Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
Joseph Joubert
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[highlight-text]Life is not a support system for art. It's the other way around.
Stephen King
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[highlight-text]A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
Entile Zola
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[highlight-text]Art not only imitates nature but also completes its deficiencies.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]It is not in life but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
George Woodcock
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[highlight-text]The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract.
Paul Klee
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[highlight-text]I've been 40 years discovering that the Queen of all colours is black.
Auguste Renoir
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[highlight-text]When one admires an artist it is important not to know him personally.
Jacinto Benaventey Martinez
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[highlight-text]The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
Blaise Pascal
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[highlight-text]Rembrandt painted about 700 pictures - of these 3 000 are in existence.
Wilhelm Bode
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[highlight-text]Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Vincent van Gogh
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[highlight-text]Painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting with the gift of speech
Simonides
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[highlight-text]The father of every good work is discontent and its mother is diligence.
Lajos Kassak
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[highlight-text]The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.
Kurt Vonnegut
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[highlight-text]Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andy Warhol
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[highlight-text]The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing and it fortifies you.
James A. Michener
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[highlight-text]Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
George Jean Nathan
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[highlight-text]Fine art is that in which the hand the head and the heart of man go together.
John Ruskin
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[highlight-text]Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
Ted Shawn
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[highlight-text]As a painter I shall never signify anything of importance. I feel it absolutely.
Vincent van Gogh
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[highlight-text]Conception my boy fundamental brainwork is what makes the difference in all art.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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[highlight-text]We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
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[highlight-text]Man in Canadian art is rarely in command of his environment or ever at home in it.
Elizabeth Kilbourn
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[highlight-text]All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
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[highlight-text]Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]Artists by definition innocent don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
Ned Rorem
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[highlight-text]Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
Baltasar Gracian
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[highlight-text]An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art.
Lee Simonson
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[highlight-text]Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
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[highlight-text]Art calls for complete mastery of techniques developed by reflection within the soul.
Bruce Lee
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[highlight-text]In any evolutionary process even in the arts the search for novelty becomes corrupting.
Kenneth Boulding
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[highlight-text]What's an artist but the dregs of his work - the human shambles that follows it around?
William Gaddis
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[highlight-text]Less disappointing than life great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
Marcel Proust
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[highlight-text]If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]Art is a collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does the better.
André Gide
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[highlight-text]A work of art cannot be satisfied with being a representation; it should be a presentation.
Jacques Reverdy
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[highlight-text]Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.
Eduard Weston
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[highlight-text]I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
Jim Morrison
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[highlight-text]One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.
Vincent van Gogh
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[highlight-text]The terror of art lies in the representation of the hidden reality with its shattering effect.
Martin Greenburg
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[highlight-text]The artist like the idiot or clown sits on the edge of the world and a push may send him over it.
Osbert Sitwell
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[highlight-text]The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
Joan Miro
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[highlight-text]A painter is a man who paints what he sells. An artist however is a man that sells what he paints.
Pablo Picasso
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[highlight-text]The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things but their inward significance.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence great! I've accomplished something.
Quentin Tarantino
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[highlight-text]Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art.
Jacques Barzun
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[highlight-text]If you ask me what I came to do in this world I an artist I will answer you: T am here to live out loud.'
Emile Zola
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[highlight-text]I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards -- in the life of an artist.
Quentin Tarantino
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[highlight-text]Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert
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[highlight-text]We must grant the artist his subject his idea his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it.
Henry James
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[highlight-text]Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
Ezra Pound
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[highlight-text]Theatre takes place all the time wherever one is and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.
John Cage
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[highlight-text]An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.
Hugh MacLennan
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[highlight-text]Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Style like the human body is specially beautiful when the veins are not prominent and the bones cannot be counted.
Tacitus
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[highlight-text]Designers and free lance artists and editors can set their hourly rates by dividing their annual income needs by 1000.
Mike Rider
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[highlight-text]I wonder whether Art has a higher function than to make me feel appreciate and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
Bernard Berenson
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[highlight-text]Art as far as it is able follows nature as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be as it were God's grandchild.
Dante Alighieri
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[highlight-text]With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
Norman Mailer
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[highlight-text]Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.
Pablo Picasso
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[highlight-text]There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses another which makes and a third which imitates them.
Plato
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[highlight-text]A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
Henri Matisse
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[highlight-text]One ought each day at least to hear a little song read a good poem see a fine picture and if possible speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]The cheap no matter how charming how immediate does not wear so well. It has a way of telling its whole story the first time through.
William Littler
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[highlight-text]Children like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way all over again.
Eudora Welty
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[highlight-text]I don't work according to nature but infront and together with it. An artist must observe the nature but never confuse it with the art.
Pablo Picasso
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[highlight-text]Art gropes it stalks like a hunter lost in the woods listening to itself and to everything around it unsure of itself waiting to pounce.
John W. Gardner
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[highlight-text]People can misinterpret almost anything so that it coincides with views they already hold. They take from art what they already believe.
Stanley Kubrick
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[highlight-text](Ars longa vita brevis.) Art is long life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.
Lawren Harris
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[highlight-text]God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso
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[highlight-text]As an artist grows older he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult as he had when a child.
Charles Burchfield
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[highlight-text]We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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[highlight-text]The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky from the earth from a scrap of paper from a passing shape.
Pablo Picasso
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[highlight-text]Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Marshall McLuhan
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[highlight-text]A true artist will let his wife starve his children go barefoot his mother drudge for his living at seventy sooner than work at anything but his art.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious individualistic unconventional sensitive irritable.
Robert Motherwell
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[highlight-text]An amateur is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
Ben Shahn
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[highlight-text]All art is a kind of confession more or less oblique. All artists if they are to survive are forced at last to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.
James Baldwin
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[highlight-text]Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard
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[highlight-text]The genuine artist is as much a dissatisfied person as the revolutionary yet how diametrically opposed are the products each distills from his dissatisfaction.
Eric Hoffer
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[highlight-text]Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.
Paul Cezanne
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[highlight-text]An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he— for some reason— thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
Andy Warhol
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[highlight-text]When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said 'It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David.'
Michelangelo
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[highlight-text]Pioneers did not produce original works of art because they were creating original human environments; they did not imagine Utopias because they were shaping them.
George Woodcock
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[highlight-text]Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out while Romantic grows from outside in.
Ned Rorem
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[highlight-text]The artist like the God of the creation remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork invisible refined out of existence indifferent paring his fingernails.
James Joyce
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[highlight-text]History repeats itself but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
Joseph Conrad
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[highlight-text]There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
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[highlight-text]A picture lives by companionship. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling.
Mark Rothko
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[highlight-text]Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which throughout his lifetime he draws what he is and what he says and when the source dries up the work withers and crumbles.
Albert Camus
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[highlight-text]My role in society or any artist's or poet's role is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher not as a leader but as a reflection of us all.
John Lennon
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[highlight-text]By a curious confusion many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]Creative force like a musical composer goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme now high now low in solo in chorus ten thousand times reverberated till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]I am convinced it is a mistake to find an artist human outside his work. If you cannot find him human in and through his work you are better not to know it when you come to formulate an opinion of his public value.
Kenneth Winters
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[highlight-text]Living is a form of not being sure not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes de Mille
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[highlight-text]Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him.
Carl Jung
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[highlight-text]Art is a human activity consisting in this that one man consciously by means of external signs hands on to others feelings he has worked through and other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.
Leo Tolstoy
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[highlight-text]Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted everything in fact which masks reality from us in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
Henri Bergson
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[highlight-text]I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than 'Die Meister Singer' of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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[highlight-text]There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man beyond history and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
Ansel Adams
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[highlight-text]One of the recognizable features of the authentic masterpiece is its capacity to renew itself to endure the loss of some kinds of immediate relevance while still answering the most important questions men can ask including new ones they are just learning how to frame.
Arnold Stein
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[highlight-text]Even in literature and art no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will nine times out of ten become original without ever having noticed it.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art if it be art will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.
David Herbert Lawrence
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[highlight-text]Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.
Maurice Sendak
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[highlight-text]Culture is something you cannot buy something you cannot import something you cannot learn or produce at will. A writer an artist or musician cannot sit down and say 'Now I will produce culture.' Culture is something that evolves out of the simple enduring elements of everyday life; elements most truthfully expressed in the folk arts and crafts of a nation.
Thor Hansen