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I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
Author: Oscar Levant
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You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
Author: Edward Steichen
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Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.
Author: Edward Steichen
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Anyone who contributes to the defense fund
of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.
Author: Mike Royko
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From the shore.. one looks
upward to the sanddune grass..
10,000
green brushes attempting
where they laid
to paint the blue sky
jade.
Author: Saiom Shriver
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Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.
Author: Marie Laurencin
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Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.
Author: Christopher Lehmann-haupt
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The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.
Author: Maria Lenhart
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
Author: Oscar Levant
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Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
Author: Melvin Maddocks
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All autobiography is self-indulgent.
Author: Daphne Du Maurier
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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.
Author: Henry Mille
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The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.
Author: Henry Mitchell
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A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
Author: George Moore
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I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.
Author: Claes Oldenburg
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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.
Author: Marcel Proust
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Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.
Author: Wynetka Ann Reynolds
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
Author: Auguste Rodin
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What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
Author: Augustus Saint-gaudens
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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Author: Robert Schumann
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Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Author: Edward Steichen
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The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Author: Paul Strand
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I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Author: Barbra Streisand
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Author: Twyla Tharp
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Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Author: Lionel Trilling
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The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.
Author: Kenneth Tynan
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Author: Paul Valery
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For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages?
Author: Gore Vidal
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Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.
Author: E. B. White
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Portraits are supposed to "look within," but in my opinion very few people have an interior significantly different from the outside portrait.
Author: Jon Witcomb
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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
Author: William Wordsworth
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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Author: Eugene Delacroix
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Author: Ellen Key
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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Author: Marshall Mcluhan
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You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
Author: Bernadette Peters
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The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization.
Author: Jacob Getlar Smith
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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
Author: Lindsay Anderson
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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Author: Al Capp
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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.
Author: Angela Carter
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
Author: Jean Dubuffet
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Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
Author: Eliza Farnham
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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Author: Ernst Fischer
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I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
Author: Carrie Fisher
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That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.
Author: Edward Gordon Craig
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Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Author: Paul Gauguin
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Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
Author: John Lecarre
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Author: Bette Midler
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Author: Novalis
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I invent nothing, I rediscover.
Author: Auguste Rodin
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For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
Author: Georges Rouault
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