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Art

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it -- on the inside.

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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

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

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more -- more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Shaw, George Bernard

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

John F. Kennedy

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Camus, Albert

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

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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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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

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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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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We have art in order not to die of the truth.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Jovovich, Milla

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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

Gill, Eric

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Sand, George

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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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The powerful play goes on -- and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

Langer, Suzanne K.

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Gide, Andre

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Dali, Salvador

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

Simonides

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

Blackie, Professor

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In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.

Melville, Herman

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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

David Cronenberg

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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

Haldane, John B. S.

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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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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Motherwell, Robert

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

Pound, Ezra

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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought.

Kronenberger, Louis

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

Ginsberg, Allen

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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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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