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Art

Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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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

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Buckingham, Duke of

Use your head and your heart, its not everything but its a start.

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art (even cartoon art)is never really finished; it is abandoned.

Brooke McEldowney

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

Brancusi, Constantin

There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

Faulkner, William

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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

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What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Blair, Hugh

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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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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

Dubuffet, Jean

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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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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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Mencken, H. L.

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Murdoch, Iris

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Forster, Edward M.

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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

Simonides

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Burroughs, William S.

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Moses, Grandma

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

Paz, Octavio

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

Suttner, Bertha Von

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Grass, Gunther

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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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Faint hearts never win fair ladies.

Proverb, Danish

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

Beecher, Henry Ward