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Art

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

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

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.

Federico Fellini

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

Schumann, Robert

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The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Howe, Nathaniel

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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

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

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

Frye, Northrop

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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Camus, Albert

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

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

Midler, Bette

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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Bangs, Lester

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Sontag, Susan

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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

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.