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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

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Jovovich, Milla

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Wilson, Robert

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

Sand, George

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

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

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

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it joy?

Dworkin, Andrea

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No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Simonides

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Wolfe, Thomas

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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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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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Menzies, Robert

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

Elizabeth Bowen

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

Frye, Northrop

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

Baldwin, James

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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

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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Fischer, Ernst

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Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Cushman, Charlotte Saunders

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

Cicero

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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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

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us.

Gutzkow

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

M. C. Richards

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Morris, William

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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

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

Novalis

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

Buckingham, Duke of

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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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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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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole ofyour hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.

Francis De Sales, St.

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.

Novalis

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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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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together.

Hare, David

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

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.