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Art

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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

For the outer sense alone perceives visible things and the eye of the heart alone seeds the invisible.

Saint-Victor, Richard of

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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Love can heal a broken heart.

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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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

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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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

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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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

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

Rich, Adrienne

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.

Lewitzky, Bella

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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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.

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

Brown, John Mason