~ Art and the Artist Quotes ~

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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