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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Author: Francois Cavanna
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Great art picks up where nature ends.
Author: Marc Chagall
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My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Author: Pablo Picasso
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
Author: A. Alvarez
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You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.
Author: Sarah Brightman
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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
Author: Duke Of Buckingham
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The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Author: Ansel Adams
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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Author: Albert Camus
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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
Author: Cyril Connolly
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So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.
Author: Alexander Eliot
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I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
Author: Henri Matisse
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Author: Josh Billings
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The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting -- the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.
Author: Saul Bellow
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Author: Daniel Barenboim
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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
Author: Simone De Beauvoir
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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.
Author: Lester Bangs
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Author: Charles Baudelaire
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Author: Salvador Dali
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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
Author: Paul Cezanne
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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
Author: Guy Debord
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Author: Dawn French
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When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes! - 1997.
Author: Christian Cardell Corbet
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Colors that blend with the brick and the dark waters of the city's canals - greens, browns and the strong shade of oxblood that is known as Bruges red.
Author: Vicky Elliott
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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
Author: Gustave Flaubert
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Author: Edmond De Goncourt
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.
Author: Erica Jong
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Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Author: Stella Adler
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Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.
Author: Hugh Casson
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Author: Professor Blackie
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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
Author: John Drummond
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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Author: Max Eastman
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I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.
Author: Roger Lewis
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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Author: Diane Arbus
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Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.
Author: Aaron Howard
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Author: Italo Calvino
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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.
Author: Charlotte Saunders Cushman
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
Author: M. C. Escher
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The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product.
Author: Grace Glueck
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Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours."Fr., "A picture is worth a thousand words.
Author: Napoleon
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Author: Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I paint with shapes.
Author: Alexander Calder
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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.
Author: Andre Breton
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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.
Author: Beck
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
Author: Ludwig Van Beethoven
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