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Art

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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

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jacob, Max

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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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

Ovid

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

Berger, John

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

Gide, Andre

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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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

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If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.

Proverb, Chinese

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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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

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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

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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

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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.

Charles Rosin

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Walt Whitman

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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Lowell, James Russell

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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

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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