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Art

Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence.

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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.

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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 has never been made while thinking of art.

Niko Stumpo

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

Trotsky, Leon

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

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

Ruckett

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

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

Walt Whitman

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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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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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Kempis, Thomas

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Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.

Isak Dineson

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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art.

Chagall, Marc

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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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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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Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero's heart.

Proverb

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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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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards

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

Simonides

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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Penn Jillette

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

Jacob, Max

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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Nightingale, Florence

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Holyfield, Evander

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The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not.

Wiersbe, Warren

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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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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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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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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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It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Howe, Nathaniel

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The heart will break, but broken live on.

Byron, Lord

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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