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Art

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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

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

Edmond de Goncourt

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

Jackson Pollock

O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

G. K. Chesterton

A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

Latimer, Bishop Hugh

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Ruskin, John

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

George Tooker

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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Anderson, Lindsay

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Sand, George

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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 Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Alfred North Whitehead

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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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Two things are bad for the heart -- running up stairs and running down people.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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

Camus, Albert

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

Simonides

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Frye, Northrop

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Louis I Kahn

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

Brancusi, Constantin

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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

Bellow, Saul

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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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 heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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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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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

Kooning, Willem De

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There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.