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MysteRy · « **Reply #105 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:54:08 PM »

[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

MysteRy · « **Reply #106 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:54:34 PM »

[highlight-text]The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.

Joan Miro

MysteRy · « **Reply #107 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:55:00 PM »

[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

MysteRy · « **Reply #108 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:55:28 PM »

[highlight-text]The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things but their inward significance.

Aristotle

MysteRy · « **Reply #109 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:56:39 PM »

[highlight-text]If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence great! I've accomplished something.

Quentin Tarantino

MysteRy · « **Reply #110 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:57:31 PM »

[highlight-text]Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

MysteRy · « **Reply #111 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:58:08 PM »

[highlight-text]Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art.

Jacques Barzun

MysteRy · « **Reply #112 on:** February 25, 2016, 01:59:16 PM »

[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

MysteRy · « **Reply #113 on:** February 25, 2016, 02:32:27 PM »

[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

MysteRy · « **Reply #114 on:** February 25, 2016, 02:32:57 PM »

[highlight-text]Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

Oscar Wilde

MysteRy · « **Reply #115 on:** February 25, 2016, 02:33:24 PM »

[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

MysteRy · « **Reply #116 on:** February 25, 2016, 02:33:48 PM »

[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

MysteRy · « **Reply #117 on:** February 25, 2016, 02:34:15 PM »

[highlight-text]Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

Ezra Pound

MysteRy · « **Reply #118 on:** February 25, 2016, 02:34:41 PM »

[highlight-text]Theatre takes place all the time wherever one is and art simply facilitates persuading one this is the case.

John Cage

MysteRy · « **Reply #119 on:** February 25, 2016, 02:35:02 PM »

[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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