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Art
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
Cicero
The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.
Lowell, James Russell
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure
Baryshnikov, Mikhail
If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.
Kempis, Thomas
Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.
Thurber, James
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
Haldane, John B. S.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Franklin, Benjamin
Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
Gandhi, Indira
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
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.
Durrell, Lawrence
Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
Burroughs, William S.
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
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Edmond de Goncourt
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
Smith, Logan Pearsall
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
Wolfe, Thomas
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
Simonides
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
Wilde, Oscar
Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Buckingham, Duke of
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
Suttner, Bertha Von
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Fischer, Ernst
I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.
Luther, Martin
Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
Farnham, Eliza
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
Erasmus, Desiderius
In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.
Kooning, Willem De
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
Rand, Ayn
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
Hockney, David
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
Cassady, Neal
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
Weil, Simone
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Joyce, James
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
Ruskin, John
If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.
Kennedy, John F.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
Shaw, George Bernard
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
Dubuffet, Jean
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
Ben Shahn
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
Mann, Horace
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
Beck
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
French, Marilyn
Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.
Hare, David
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Godard, Jean-Luc
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles
Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
Schumann, Robert
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Murdoch, Iris
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Morris, William
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