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Art

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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.

By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Simonides

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Paz, Octavio

What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Saint-Victor, Richard of

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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Picasso, Pablo

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Zedong, Mao

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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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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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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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

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Ionesco, Eugene

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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

Driscoll, Louise

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

Kooning, Willem De

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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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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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Trilling, Lionel

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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 shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kooning, Willem De

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Carter, Angela

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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Castaneda, Carlos