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Art

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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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

The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.

Novalis

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

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

Paz, Octavio

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Huxley, Aldous

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Rowland, Helen

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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What is art but a way of seeing?

Berger, Thomas

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Frye, Northrop

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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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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

Shakespeare, William

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Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Johnson, Ben

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

Picasso, Pablo

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A heart in love with beauty never grows old.

Proverb, Turkish

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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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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

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Elizabeth Bowen

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Miller, Henry

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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Connolly, Cyril

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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Voznesensky, Andrei

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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.

Midler, Bette

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

Bierce, Ambrose

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It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.

Jadelr and Cristina Cordova

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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

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I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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

M. C. Richards