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I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

Ben Shahn

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

Buckingham, Duke of

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Pearse, Patrick Henry

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Joyce, James

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

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Haydon, Benjamin

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

Riding, Laura

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

I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

London, Jack

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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Barzun, Jacques

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.

Pascal, Blaise

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Twain, Mark

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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Pope, Alexander

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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.

Tzara, Tristan

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Crowley, Aleister

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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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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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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No manager ever won no ballgames.

Anderson, Sparky

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

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

Duke Ellington

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By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved.

Updike, John

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

G. K. Chesterton

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I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had never been broken-hearted.

Burns, Robert

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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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There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.

Anderson, Judith

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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.