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Art

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Woodberry, George E.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

Berryman, John

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Ruckett

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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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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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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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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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

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

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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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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

Pound, Ezra

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

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

Wilson, Robert

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Pablo Picasso

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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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

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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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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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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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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

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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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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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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Cioran, E. M.

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Buckingham, Duke of

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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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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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 painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

Edmond de Goncourt

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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