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Art

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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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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

Keller, Helen

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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.

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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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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.

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Waugh, Evelyn

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Alvarez, A.

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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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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Brancusi, Constantin

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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

Camus, Albert

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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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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

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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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Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Cioran, E. M.

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Proust, Marcel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Yu Cao

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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

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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

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Eugene Delacroix

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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