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Art

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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

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

Jacob, Max

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

Barenboim, Daniel

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.

Ward Jenkins

No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

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

Frye, Northrop

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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Faulkner, William

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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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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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I shut my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Kooning, Willem De

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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

Wilde, Oscar

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It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.

Jeff Melvoin

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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

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It is either easy or impossible.

Dali, Salvador

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

France, Anatole

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

Yu Cao

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

Capp, Al

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Beck

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

Piet Mondrian

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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Davis, Angela Y.

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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.

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

West, Rebecca

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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Chopra, Deepak

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Anderson, Bill

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

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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

Cioran, E. M.

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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 never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Frost, Robert

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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

Ruskin, John

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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

Novalis

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If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Eliot, T. S.

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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now,by suffering. This is the easier victory.

Eliot, T. S.