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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Stein, Gertrude

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

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

David Cronenberg

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

11.

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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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.

Kennedy, John F.

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

Wordsworth, William

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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What I dream of is an art of balance.

Henri Matisse

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Blackie, Professor

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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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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.

Lombardi, Vince

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.

Rushdie, Salman

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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Capp, Al

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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

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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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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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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ruckett

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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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It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Mann, Horace

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Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

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The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Proverb

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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Kael, Pauline

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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Shaw, George Bernard

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