| Albert Camus |
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints ...
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| Albert Camus |
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous b...
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| Albert Einstein |
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the c...
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| Al Capp |
Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the u...
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| Alexander Calder |
I paint with shapes....
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| Alexander Calder |
My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six....
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| Alexander Calder |
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist,...
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| Ambrose Bierce |
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instructi...
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| Ambrose Bierce |
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the...
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| Amy Lowell |
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record t...
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| Anais Nin |
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry o...
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| Andre Gide |
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the...
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| Andre Gide |
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance...
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| Andy Warhol |
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it los...
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| Andy Warhol |
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into sla...
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| Andy Warhol |
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just...
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| Andy Warhol |
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen ...
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| Andy Warhol |
I like boring things....
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| Andy Warhol |
Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes....
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| Andy Warhol |
I am a deeply superficial person....
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| Andy Warhol |
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't...
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| Ansel Adams |
You don't take a photograph, you make it....
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| Ansel Adams |
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy conce...
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| Ansel Adams |
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only go...
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| Ansel Adams |
The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the...
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| Ansel Adams |
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photogra...
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| Aristotle |
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance ...
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| Cyril Connolly |
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, a...
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| Helen Hayes |
I cry out for order and find it only in art....
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| Auguste Rodin |
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't n...
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| Auguste Rodin |
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's no...
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| Auguste Rodin |
I invent nothing, I rediscover....
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| Augustus Saint-Gaudens |
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art....
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| Barbra Streisand |
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult ...
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| Bernadette Peters |
You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone e...
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| Bette Midler |
I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few t...
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| Carl Rogers |
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence...
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| Cecil Beaton |
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that ...
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| Charles Baudelaire |
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of r...
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| Charles Horton Cooley |
An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one....
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| Charles Horton Cooley |
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh ...
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| Christopher Lehmann-Haupt |
Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods,...
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| Christopher Lehmann-Haupt |
We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narrativ...
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| Cindy Sherman |
I didn't have any interest in traditional art....
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| Dale Carnegie |
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleas...
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| Daphne du Maurier |
All autobiography is self-indulgent....
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| David Hockney |
Anything simple always interests me....
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| David Hockney |
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you'...
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| Diane Arbus |
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells...
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| Donal Henahan |
The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like g...
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| E. B. White |
Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote...
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| Edgar Degas |
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficu...
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| Edgard Varese |
An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are f...
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| Edmond de Goncourt |
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than...
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| Edward Steichen |
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the h...
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| Edward Steichen |
Photography is a major force in explaining man to man....
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| Edward Steichen |
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done a...
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| Edward Steichen |
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of ...
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| Elbert Hubbard |
Art is not a thing; it is a way....
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| Elbert Hubbard |
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping awa...
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| Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of ...
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| Ellen Barkin |
Acting is a matter of giving away secrets....
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| Ellen Key |
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becom...
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| Elmer G. Letterman |
You can't start at the top....
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| E. M. Forster |
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of ar...
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| E. M. Forster |
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the m...
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| Emile Zola |
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is no...
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| Erica Jong |
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow...
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| Eugene Delacroix |
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves i...
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| Federico Fellini |
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's aut...
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| Frank Lloyd Wright |
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed....
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| Frank Lloyd Wright |
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can...
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| Frank Sinatra |
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be ...
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| Fran Lebowitz |
Andy Warhol made fame more famous....
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| Fran Lebowitz |
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is there...
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| Friedrich Nietzsche |
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratit...
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| George Bernard Shaw |
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world...
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| George Moore |
A great artist is always before his time or behind it....
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| George Santayana |
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual w...
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| Georgia O'Keeffe |
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I co...
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| Georgia O'Keeffe |
Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - ...
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| Georgia O'Keeffe |
It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that...
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| Gertrude Stein |
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint wi...
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| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of eve...
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| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme ex...
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| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere...
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| Gore Vidal |
For half a century photography has been the "art form" of ...
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| Gustave Flaubert |
Of all lies, art is the least untrue....
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| Hendrik Willem Van Loon |
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening...
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| Hendrik Willem Van Loon |
Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilem...
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| Henri Cartier-Bresson |
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a f...
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| Henri Cartier-Bresson |
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning ins...
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| Henri Matisse |
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When t...
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| Henri Matisse |
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between ...
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| Henri Matisse |
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. ...
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| Henri Matisse |
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and ...
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| Henri Matisse |
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul....
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| Henri Matisse |
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works...
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| Henri Matisse |
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the adva...
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| Henri Matisse |
It is only after years of preparation that the young artis...
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| Henri Matisse |
I have been no more than a medium, as it were....
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| Henri Matisse |
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and sereni...
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| Henry Ellis |
Every artist writes his own autobiography....
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| Henry Mille |
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded indiv...
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| Henry Moore |
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or wr...
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| Henry Moore |
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of t...
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| Henry Ward Beecher |
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints hi...
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| Howard Dietz |
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with th...
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| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his ...
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| Isaac Bashevis Singer |
I don't invent characters because the Almightly has alread...
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| Italo Calvino |
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it...
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| Jean Cocteau |
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beau...
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| Jenny Holzer |
The most profound things are inexpressible....
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| Joan Rivers |
Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else,...
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| John Ciardi |
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at g...
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| John Gregory Dunne |
Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pi...
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| John LeCarre |
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the d...
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| John Ruskin |
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the hear...
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| John Updike |
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for th...
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| John Updike |
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk exces...
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| Jonathan Swift |
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others....
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| Josh Billings |
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are ne...
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| Josh Billings |
About the most originality that any writer can hope to ach...
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| Jules Feiffer |
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue....
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| Kahlil Gibran |
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward w...
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| Kenneth Tynan |
The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of t...
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| Leonardo da Vinci |
Although nature commences with reason and ends in experien...
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| Leon Trotsky |
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or...
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| Lionel Trilling |
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal....
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| Louis Kahn |
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressiv...
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| Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
All art is but imitation of nature....
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| Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if o...
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| Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good....
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| Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost...
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| Marc Chagall |
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object...
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| Marc Chagall |
Great art picks up where nature ends....
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| Marc Chagall |
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two ar...
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| Marc Chagall |
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awak...
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| Marcel Proust |
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an ...
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| Maria Callas |
I don't need the money, dear. I work for art....
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| Maria Lenhart |
The fact that writers will go through so much to remain wr...
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| Marshall McLuhan |
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century....
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| Mary Ellen Mark |
I just think it's important to be direct and honest with p...
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| Max Eastman |
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciou...
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| M. C. Escher |
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?...
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| M. C. Escher |
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossi...
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| M. C. Escher |
We adore chaos because we love to produce order....
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| Melvin Maddocks |
Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little...
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| Michelangelo |
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands....
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| Michelangelo |
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfect...
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| Michelangelo |
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle....
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| Mickey Spillane |
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player ...
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| Novalis |
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist...
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| Octavio Paz |
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an inv...
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| Odilon Redon |
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed re...
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| Oscar Levant |
I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy....
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| Oscar Wilde |
All that I desire to point out is the general principle th...
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| Oscar Wilde |
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait ...
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| Oscar Wilde |
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he...
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| Oscar Wilde |
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament...
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| Pablo Picasso |
The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from...
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| Pablo Picasso |
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others...
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| Pablo Picasso |
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off o...
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| Pablo Picasso |
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary....
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| Pablo Picasso |
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an ...
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| Pablo Picasso |
My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will beco...
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| Pablo Picasso |
Give me a museum and I'll fill it....
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| Pablo Picasso |
We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes...
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| Pat Colander |
In Chicago, we may not think the Picasso presiding over th...
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| Paul Cezanne |
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a ...
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| Paul Gauguin |
In art, all who have done something other than their prede...
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| Paul Gauguin |
Art is either plagiarism or revolution....
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| Paul Gauguin |
There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In ev...
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| Paul Gauguin |
The history of modern art is also the history of the progr...
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| Paul Strand |
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere,...
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| Paul Valery |
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abando...
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| Peter Kropotkin |
Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of charac...
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| Plutarch |
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that spe...
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Pictures must not be too picturesque....
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| Richard Avedon |
My portraits are more about me than they are about the peo...
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| Robert Schumann |
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is ...
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| Roy Lichtenstein |
I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more...
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| Roy Lichtenstein |
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me....
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| Salvador Dali |
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an ...
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| Salvador Dali |
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility...
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| Salvador Dali |
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality....
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| Salvador Dali |
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about ...
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| Sarah Brightman |
I have a love-hate relationship with performing....
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| Sarah Brightman |
You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You...
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| Sarah Brightman |
I don't want to see pictures of Hollywood stars in their d...
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| Scott Adams |
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is k...
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| Stella Adler |
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you t...
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| Ted Shawn |
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff ...
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| Theodore Dreiser |
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on win...
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| Tommy Lee |
When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've alway...
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| Thomas Paine |
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as ...
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| T. S. Eliot |
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flour...
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| Twyla Tharp |
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home....
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| Vincent Van Gogh |
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," the...
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| W. H. Auden |
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but enterta...
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| Willa Cather |
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a mo...
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| William Faulkner |
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life...
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| William Hazlitt |
Rules and models destroy genius and art....
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| William Wordsworth |
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart....
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| William Wordsworth |
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them....
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