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Art

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

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

Buckingham, Duke of

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

Gordon, George

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

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

Jeff Melvoin

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Cather, Willa

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

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

Updike, John

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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Debord, Guy

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To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.

David Cronenberg

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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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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Schumann, Robert

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

Piero Milani

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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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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Art, that great undogmatized church.

Key, Ellen

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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]

Shakespeare, William

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

Cocteau, Jean

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Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Picabia, Francis

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Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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

David Cronenberg

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

Farnham, Eliza

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Warhol, Andy

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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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What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Weil, Simone

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The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

Barenboim, Daniel

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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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Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Jacob, Max

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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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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere.

Apollinaire, Guillaume

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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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There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue flow; To plant, to watch, to water there, This be our duty, be our care.

Bowring, Sir John

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

Keller, Helen

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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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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art