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What is art but a way of seeing?
Berger, Thomas
Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
Trilling, Lionel
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
Riding, Laura
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
Stein, Gertrude
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
Picasso, Pablo
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.
Holyfield, Evander
I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.
W. Somerset Maugham
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Yu Cao
Art has an enemy called ignorance.
Johnson, Ben
The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von
Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.
For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.
Saint-Victor, Richard of
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Frye, Northrop
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
Reinhardt, Ad
Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.
Kabir
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Conrad, Joseph
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
Drummond, John
Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.
Piero Milani
There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.
Havel, Vaclav
Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
Suttner, Bertha Von
I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?
Jafar
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
Kooning, Willem De
Art has never been made while thinking of art.
Niko Stumpo
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
Arp, Jean
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Davis, Angela Y.
If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.
Anderson, Bill
Faint hearts never win fair ladies.
Proverb, Danish
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.
Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.
Ballard, J. G.
All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.
Trocchi, Alexander
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
Parker, Theodore
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
Eliot, T. S.
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
Waugh, Evelyn
Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
Pound, Ezra
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
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
Schumann, Robert
On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
Gordon, George
Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.
Forster, Edward M.
I am an artist I am here to live out loud.
Zola, Emile
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
Cioran, E. M.
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
Richter, Jean Paul
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Ellis, Havelock
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Churchill, Winston
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John F. Kennedy
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
Benjamin, Walter
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