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Art

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

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Ellis, Havelock

Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Geldzahler, Henry

Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Wilde, Oscar

Any artist should be grateful for a na?ve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Bellow, Saul

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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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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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

Ovid

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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Diana, Princess of Wales

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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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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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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

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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

Ward Jenkins

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

Blackie, Professor

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Let each man exercise the art he knows.

Aristophanes

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

Riding, Laura

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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O, had I but followed the arts!

Shakespeare, William

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

Woodberry, George E.

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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

Stephen Nachmanovitch

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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!

Truman, Harry S

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Ruskin, John

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The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu

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

Schumann, Robert

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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

Thurber, James

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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

Rand, Ayn

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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Castaneda, Carlos

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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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The heart is the best reflective thinker.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Frye, Northrop

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G. K. Chesterton

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Camus, Albert

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

Dubuffet, Jean

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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