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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
Author: Cindy Sherman
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The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
Author: John Updike
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An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
Author: Andy Warhol
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Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
Author: Andy Warhol
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Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
Author: Andy Warhol
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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
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What is art but a way of seeing?.
Author: Thomas Berger
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Author: Pablo Picasso
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
Author: Pablo Picasso
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Author: Pablo Picasso
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All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.
Author: Jacques Barzun
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You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Author: Ansel Adams
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There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Author: Ansel Adams
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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
Author: W. H. Auden
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Author: Jean Cocteau
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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.
Author: William Faulkner
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When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.
Author: Arthur Fellig
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I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.
Author: Roy Lichtenstein
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Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Author: Henri Matisse
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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
Author: Henri Matisse
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
Author: Henri Matisse
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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Author: Henri Matisse
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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Author: Michelangelo
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Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
Author: Jean Arp
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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
Author: Anthony Burgess
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Balance is the enemy of art.
Author: Richard Eyre
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When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
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Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled.
Author: Percy Wynham Lewis
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Art is Man's nature. Nature is God's art.
Author: James Bailey
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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
Author: John Ciardi
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Author: Andre Gide
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The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.
Author: Donal Henahan
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Author: David Hockney
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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
Author: Adolf Berle
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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
Author: Marilyn French
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I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' - "London Magazine", March, 1967.
Author: Igor Stravinsky
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I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their dressing gowns taking out the rubbish. It ruins the fantasy.
Author: Sarah Brightman
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One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Author: Charles Horton Cooley
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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.
Author: Paul Gauguin
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Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Author: Andy Warhol
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One day the world will look upon research
on animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.
Da Vinci.
Author: Leonardo Davinci
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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.
Author: Neal Cassady
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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"?.
Author: Andrea Dworkin
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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Author: Northrop Frye
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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Author: Theodore Dreiser
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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.
Author: Theodor W. Adorno
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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.
Author: Angela Y. Davis
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