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Art

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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Keller, Helen

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that.

Keats, John

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Cather, Willa

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Mailer, Norman

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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

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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Miller, Henry

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Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.

Piero Milani

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

Anderson, Lindsay

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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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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

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If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

Kempis, Thomas

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

Gill, Eric

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Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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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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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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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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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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All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca

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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Updike, John

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Art is the signature of civilizations.

Sills, Beverly

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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Camus, Albert

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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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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

Winkelmann

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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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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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

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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

Miller, Henry

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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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

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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Picasso, Pablo

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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Rodin, Auguste

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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.

French, Marilyn

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul

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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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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Tynan, Kenneth

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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.