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Art |
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| "Paradoxically though it may seem, it is
none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates
life." |
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-- Oscar Wilde (1854 -1900), Irish writer |
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| "Art cannot be a monologue." |
| -- Albert Camus (1913-60), French philosopher |
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"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
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-- Paul Valery (1874-1945), French poet
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"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it
imposes on itself, and dies of all others."
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| -- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), French-Algerian
writer |
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| "The artist is nothing without the gift,
but the gift is nothing without work." |
| -- Émile Zola (1840-1902), French writer |
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| "Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first." |
| -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German
philosopher |
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| "An artist cannot talk about his art any
more than a plant can discuss horticulture." |
| -- Jean Cocteau(1889-1963), French writer, film
producer |
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| "Art is not a thing; it is a way." |
| -- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), American writer |
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| "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the
artist does the better." |
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-- Andre Gide (1869-1951), French writer
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| “The
aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by
artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,
when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is
life.” |
| -- Williams Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist |
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"No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film
does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the
soul." |
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-- Ingrid
Bergman (1915-82), Swedish actress
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| "Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling
the artist has experienced." |
| -- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910),
Russian writer |
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| "The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for
reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make
sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling
that something is right in the world." |
| -- Leonard Bernstein (1918-90),
American conductor, composer |
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| "Paintings have a life of their own that derives
from the painter's soul." |
| -- Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90),
Dutch painter |
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| "No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely
imitate natural forms." |
| -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180), Roman Emperor |
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| “There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but
there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence,
transform a yellow spot into the sun.” |
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Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973), Spanish painter |
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| "What is art? Nature
concentrated." |
| -- Honoré de Balzac
(1799-1850), French writer |
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| "Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of
every picture is the frame." |
| -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(1874-1936), British writer, critic |
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| "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my
imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is
limited. Imagination encircles the world." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| "The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate
in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates." |
| -- T. S. Eliot (1885-1968),
American-born British poet |
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| "My work is a game, a very serious game." |
| -- M(auritis) C(ornelius) Escher
(1898-1972), Dutch artist |
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| "One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art
is nothing without form." |
| -- Gustave Flaubert (1821-80),
French writer |
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| "The artist must create a spark before he
can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to
be consumed by the fire of his own creation." |
| -- François Auguste René Rodin (1840-1917),
French sculptor |
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| "Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving,
the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or
abstraction from life, it is life itself." |
| -- Henry Havelock Ellis (1859-1939), British
psychologist |
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| "The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of
their appearing to him, everybody sees them." |
| -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832), German writer, scientist |
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| "In
art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have
merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are
masters." |
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--
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), French painter |
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| "Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure
of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the
spirit of which Nature herself is animated." |
| -- François Auguste René Rodin (1840-1917),
French sculptor |
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| "Art
is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and
concealed." |
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--
Kahil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese poet, artist |
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| "The
defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness." |
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Max Eastman (1883-1969), American writer |
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| "Art is either plagiarism or
revolution." |
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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), French painter |
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| "No form of art goes beyond ordinary
consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the
twilight room of the soul." |
| -- Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), Swedish actress |
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| "The creative act is not performed by the
artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the
external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner
qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative
act." |
| -- Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968), French artist |
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| "Even in literature and art, no man who
bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you
simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it
has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become
original without ever having noticed it." |
| -- Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963), British
writer |
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| "Every man's work, whether it be
literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is
always a portrait of himself." |
| -- Samuel Butler (1612-80), English poet,
author |
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| "Life beats down and crushes the soul and
art reminds you that you have one." |
| -- Stella Adler (1902- ), American actress |
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| "Art is the process of
marketing the self for its highest maximum value. Art is one half
pure talent and one half pure feeling. The artist's talent is
his/her genius, the gift of the muse who leaves no name. The
artist's feeling is the artist's ability to master the feeling,
creative process of vision, planning, implementation, positioning,
evaluation, re-positioning, and completion. Without a sense of
marketing the self and its creation, the artist has little prospect
for artistic creation of value." |
| -- Albert Emerson Unaterra
(1952-2002), American writer |
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| "A painting in a museum hears more
ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world." |
| -- Edmond de Concourt (1822 - 1896) |
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| "Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't
matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't
make us better, then what on earth is it for." |
| -- Alice Walker (b. 1944),
American writer |
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| "The artist needs no religion beyond his work." |
| -- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915),
American author |
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| "Art is a lie that makes us realize
truth." |
| -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish artist |
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“One ought only to write when
one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one
dips one's pen.” |
| -- Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist |
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| "The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons,
because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for
a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel
nobly." |
| -- Aldous Leonard Huxley
(1894-1963), British writer |
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| "Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space,
and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an
inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets
you breathe its strange, special air." |
| -- Leonard Bernstein (1918-90),
American conductor, composer |
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| "I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like
itself. I want it to sound like the composer." |
| -- Leonard Bernstein (1918-90),
American conductor, composer |
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| "The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate
in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates." |
| -- T. S. Eliot (1885-1968),
American-born British poet |
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| "True
art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| "Creativity is allowing yourself to make
mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." |
| -- Scott Adams |
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”The best style is the style
you don't notice.” |
| -- Somerset Maugham |
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| "In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's
palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of
love." |
| -- Marc Chagall (1887-1985),
Russian-born artist |
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“Don't tell me the moon
is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
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| -- Anton Chekhov |
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| "Life is very nice, but it lacks form.
It's the aim of art to give it some." |
| -- Jean Anouilh (1910-87), French playwright |
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| "The aim of every artist is to arrest
motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that
a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again
since it is life." |
| -- William Faulkner, American novelist |
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"It is the spectator, and
not life, that art really mirrors."
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| -- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) |
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| "I love acting. It is so much more real
than life." |
| -- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) |
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| 'Every child is an artist. The problem is
how to remain an artist once we grow up." |
| -- Pablo Picasso |
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| “Listen
carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just
what it is about
you
like--
then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's
individual and worth keeping." |
| -- Jean Cocteau |
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“The artist's only
responsibility is his art. He will be completely ruthless if
he is a good one.... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not
hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any
number of old ladies.” |
| -- Williams Faulkner, American novelist |
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| "An artist can look at a pretty girl and
see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an
old woman and see the pretty girl she used to be. A GREAT artist can
look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is, and force the
viewer to se the pretty girl she used to be, more than that, he can
make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this
lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body.
He can make you feel the quiet endless tragedy that there was never
a girl born who ever grew older that eighteen in her heart." |
| -- Robert Heinlein, American science fiction
writer |
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