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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3044/view">Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/63/Theodor_W._Adorno">Adorno, Theodor W.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3045/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/159/A._Alvarez">Alvarez, A.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3046/view">Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/186/Lindsay_Anderson">Anderson, Lindsay</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3047/view">Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/223/Guillaume_Apollinaire">Apollinaire, Guillaume</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3048/view">Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/223/Guillaume_Apollinaire">Apollinaire, Guillaume</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3049/view">Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/277/Jean_Arp">Arp, Jean</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3050/view">The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/412/James_Baldwin">Baldwin, James</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3051/view">Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/424/J._G._Ballard">Ballard, J. G.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3052/view">The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/437/Lester_Bangs">Bangs, Lester</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3053/view">Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/457/Daniel_Barenboim">Barenboim, Daniel</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3054/view">The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/510/Mikhail_Baryshnikov">Baryshnikov, Mikhail</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3055/view">Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/513/Jacques_Barzun">Barzun, Jacques</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3056/view">A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/533/Charles_Baudelaire">Baudelaire, Charles</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3057/view">The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/533/Charles_Baudelaire">Baudelaire, Charles</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3058/view">As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/550/Stephen_Bayley">Bayley, Stephen</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3059/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/571/Simone_De_Beauvoir">Beauvoir, Simone De</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3060/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/575/Beck">Beck</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3061/view">Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/594/Ludwig_Van_Beethoven">Beethoven, Ludwig Van</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3062/view">No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/594/Ludwig_Van_Beethoven">Beethoven, Ludwig Van</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3063/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/616/Saul_Bellow">Bellow, Saul</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Any artist should be grateful for a naïve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3064/view">Any artist should be grateful for a naïve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/616/Saul_Bellow">Bellow, Saul</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3065/view">The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/631/Walter_Benjamin">Benjamin, Walter</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3066/view">I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/664/John_Berger">Berger, John</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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What is art but a way of seeing? <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3067/view">What is art but a way of seeing?.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/667/Thomas_Berger">Berger, Thomas</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3068/view">The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/682/Adolf_Berle">Berle, Adolf</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3069/view">The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/709/John_Berryman">Berryman, John</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3070/view">The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/761/Professor_Blackie">Blackie, Professor</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3071/view">The great artist is a slave to his ideals..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/888/Christian_Nevell_Bovee">Bovee, Christian Nevell</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3072/view">Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/894/Elizabeth_Bowen">Bowen, Elizabeth</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3073/view">The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/937/Constantin_Brancusi">Brancusi, Constantin</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3074/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/966/Andre_Breton">Breton, Andre</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite? <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3075/view">What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1071/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning">Browning, Elizabeth Barrett</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3076/view">Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1103/Duke_of_Buckingham">Buckingham, Duke of</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3077/view">In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1134/Luis_Bunuel">Bunuel, Luis</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3078/view">Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1148/Anthony_Burgess">Burgess, Anthony</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3079/view">Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1174/William_S._Burroughs">Burroughs, William S.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3080/view">The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1203/Samuel_Butler">Butler, Samuel</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3081/view">To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1281/Albert_Camus">Camus, Albert</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3082/view">It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1281/Albert_Camus">Camus, Albert</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3083/view">Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1296/Al_Capp">Capp, Al</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3084/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1350/Angela_Carter">Carter, Angela</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3085/view">Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1374/Neal_Cassady">Cassady, Neal</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3086/view">Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1383/Willa_Cather">Cather, Willa</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3087/view">Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1383/Willa_Cather">Cather, Willa</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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With an apple I will astonish Paris. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3088/view">With an apple I will astonish Paris..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1411/Paul_Cezanne">Cezanne, Paul</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3089/view">When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it -- a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -- as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it is bad art..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1415/Marc_Chagall">Chagall, Marc</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3090/view">When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1415/Marc_Chagall">Chagall, Marc</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3091/view">The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1430/Raymond_Chandler">Chandler, Raymond</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3092/view">The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1485/Gilbert_K._Chesterton">Chesterton, Gilbert K.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3093/view">Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1485/Gilbert_K._Chesterton">Chesterton, Gilbert K.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3094/view">Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1485/Gilbert_K._Chesterton">Chesterton, Gilbert K.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3095/view">The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1485/Gilbert_K._Chesterton">Chesterton, Gilbert K.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3096/view">Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1520/Winston_Churchill">Churchill, Winston</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3097/view">Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1523/John_Ciardi">Ciardi, John</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is science made clear. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3098/view">Art is science made clear..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1592/Jean_Cocteau">Cocteau, Jean</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3099/view">One must be a living man and a posthumous artist..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1592/Jean_Cocteau">Cocteau, Jean</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3100/view">The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1655/Cyril_Connolly">Connolly, Cyril</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3101/view">The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1655/Cyril_Connolly">Connolly, Cyril</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3102/view">An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1659/Joseph_Conrad">Conrad, Joseph</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3103/view">Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1659/Joseph_Conrad">Conrad, Joseph</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3104/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1822/Charlotte_Saunders_Cushman">Cushman, Charlotte Saunders</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3105/view">Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1837/Edward_Dahlberg">Dahlberg, Edward</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3106/view">There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1845/Salvador_Dali">Dali, Salvador</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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It is either easy or impossible. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3107/view">It is either easy or impossible..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1845/Salvador_Dali">Dali, Salvador</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3108/view">This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1845/Salvador_Dali">Dali, Salvador</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3109/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1894/Angela_Y._Davis">Davis, Angela Y.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3110/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1938/Guy_Debord">Debord, Guy</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3111/view">Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1953/Eugene_Delacroix">Delacroix, Eugene</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3112/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2134/John_Drummond">Drummond, John</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3113/view">Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2142/Jean_Dubuffet">Dubuffet, Jean</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3114/view">For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential --the imagination..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2180/Lawrence_Durrell">Durrell, Lawrence</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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? <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3115/view">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?.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2185/Andrea_Dworkin">Dworkin, Andrea</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3116/view">The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2205/Max_Eastman">Eastman, Max</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3117/view">The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2269/T._S._Eliot">Eliot, T. S.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3118/view">Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2269/T._S._Eliot">Eliot, T. S.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Every artist writes his own autobiography. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3119/view">Every artist writes his own autobiography..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2283/Havelock_Ellis">Ellis, Havelock</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3120/view">The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2294/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Emerson, Ralph Waldo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The true poem is the poet's mind. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3121/view">The true poem is the poet's mind..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2294/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Emerson, Ralph Waldo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3122/view">Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2294/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Emerson, Ralph Waldo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3123/view">Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2294/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Emerson, Ralph Waldo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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New arts destroy the old. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3124/view">New arts destroy the old..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2294/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Emerson, Ralph Waldo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3125/view">Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2294/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Emerson, Ralph Waldo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3126/view">Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2294/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Emerson, Ralph Waldo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is the path of the creator to his work. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3127/view">Art is the path of the creator to his work..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2294/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Emerson, Ralph Waldo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3128/view">Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2294/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Emerson, Ralph Waldo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3129/view">The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2294/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Emerson, Ralph Waldo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Every artist was first an amateur. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3130/view">Every artist was first an amateur..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2294/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Emerson, Ralph Waldo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Artists must be sacrificed to their art. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3131/view">Artists must be sacrificed to their art..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2294/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson">Emerson, Ralph Waldo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3132/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2402/Eliza_Farnham">Farnham, Eliza</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3133/view">An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2413/William_Faulkner">Faulkner, William</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3134/view">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. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2413/William_Faulkner">Faulkner, William</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3135/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2482/Ernst_Fischer">Fischer, Ernst</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3136/view">I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2489/Carrie_Fisher">Fisher, Carrie</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3137/view">Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2571/Edward_M._Forster">Forster, Edward M.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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In art as in love, instinct is enough. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3138/view">In art as in love, instinct is enough..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2605/Anatole_France">France, Anatole</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3139/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2640/Marilyn_French">French, Marilyn</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3140/view">Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2666/Northrop_Frye">Frye, Northrop</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3141/view">Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2757/Jose_Ortega_Y_Gasset">Gasset, Jose Ortega Y</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is either plagiarism or revolution. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3142/view">Art is either plagiarism or revolution..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2761/Paul_Gauguin">Gauguin, Paul</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3143/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2775/Henry_Geldzahler">Geldzahler, Henry</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3144/view">The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2827/Andre_Gide">Gide, Andre</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3145/view">Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2843/Eric_Gill">Gill, Eric</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3146/view">Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2854/Allen_Ginsberg">Ginsberg, Allen</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3147/view">Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2884/Jean-Luc_Godard">Godard, Jean-Luc</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3148/view">The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2895/Johann_Wolfgang_Von_Goethe">Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3149/view">The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2895/Johann_Wolfgang_Von_Goethe">Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Personality is everything in art and poetry. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3150/view">Personality is everything in art and poetry..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2895/Johann_Wolfgang_Von_Goethe">Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3151/view">One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2895/Johann_Wolfgang_Von_Goethe">Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3152/view">Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2895/Johann_Wolfgang_Von_Goethe">Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3153/view">I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2897/Vincent_Van_Gogh">Gogh, Vincent Van</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3154/view">It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2897/Vincent_Van_Gogh">Gogh, Vincent Van</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3155/view">As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2923/Edmond_and_Jules_De_Goncourt">Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3156/view">A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2923/Edmond_and_Jules_De_Goncourt">Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3157/view">Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2938/Nadine_Gordimer">Gordimer, Nadine</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3158/view">Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2995/Gunther_Grass">Grass, Gunther</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3159/view">There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3273/Vaclav_Havel">Havel, Vaclav</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3160/view">Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3294/Benjamin_Haydon">Haydon, Benjamin</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3161/view">If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3478/David_Hockney">Hockney, David</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A picture is a poem without words. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3162/view">A picture is a poem without words..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3560/Horace">Horace</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3163/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3678/Aldous_Huxley">Huxley, Aldous</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3164/view">A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3712/Eugene_Ionesco">Ionesco, Eugene</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3165/view">The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3750/Max_Jacob">Jacob, Max</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3166/view">It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3764/Henry_James">James, Henry</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art has an enemy called ignorance. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3167/view">Art has an enemy called ignorance..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3829/Ben_Johnson">Johnson, Ben</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3168/view">No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3852/Samuel_Johnson">Johnson, Samuel</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3169/view">I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3894/Milla_Jovovich">Jovovich, Milla</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3170/view">Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3896/James_Joyce">Joyce, James</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3171/view">Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3911/Pauline_Kael">Kael, Pauline</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3172/view">I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3997/John_F._Kennedy">Kennedy, John F.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3173/view">If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3997/John_F._Kennedy">Kennedy, John F.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3174/view">In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3997/John_F._Kennedy">Kennedy, John F.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art, that great undogmatized church. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3175/view">Art, that great undogmatized church..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4020/Ellen_Key">Key, Ellen</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves It's pretty, but is it Art? <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3176/view">And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves It's pretty, but is it Art?.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4064/Rudyard_Kipling">Kipling, Rudyard</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3177/view">Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4076/Paul_Klee">Klee, Paul</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3178/view">The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4076/Paul_Klee">Klee, Paul</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3179/view">An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4109/Willem_De_Kooning">Kooning, Willem De</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3180/view">In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4109/Willem_De_Kooning">Kooning, Willem De</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3181/view">Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4109/Willem_De_Kooning">Kooning, Willem De</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3182/view">The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4128/Hilton_Kramer">Kramer, Hilton</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3183/view">In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4146/Louis_Kronenberger">Kronenberger, Louis</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is the objectification of feeling. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3184/view">Art is the objectification of feeling..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4223/Suzanne_K._Langer">Langer, Suzanne K.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3185/view">A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4227/Lao-Tzu">Lao-Tzu</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3186/view">In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4395/Sinclair_Lewis">Lewis, Sinclair</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3187/view">Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4399/Bella_Lewitzky">Lewitzky, Bella</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3188/view">Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4485/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow">Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3189/view">Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4485/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow">Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3190/view">The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4644/Norman_Mailer">Mailer, Norman</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3191/view">There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4789/Henri_Matisse">Matisse, Henri</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3192/view">Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4906/Marshall_Mcluhan">Mcluhan, Marshall</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3193/view">Art at its most significant is a distant early warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4906/Marshall_Mcluhan">Mcluhan, Marshall</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3194/view">As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4906/Marshall_Mcluhan">Mcluhan, Marshall</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3195/view">Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4942/Robert_Menzies">Menzies, Robert</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Caricature is rough truth. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3196/view">Caricature is rough truth..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4946/George_Meredith">Meredith, George</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3197/view">A man paints with his brains and not with his hands..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/4974/Michelangelo">Michelangelo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3198/view">The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5001/Henry_Miller">Miller, Henry</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3199/view">Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5001/Henry_Miller">Miller, Henry</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3200/view">Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5001/Henry_Miller">Miller, Henry</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3201/view">Art is man's expression of his joy in labor..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5141/William_Morris">Morris, William</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3202/view">If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5158/Grandma_Moses">Moses, Grandma</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3203/view">The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5165/Robert_Motherwell">Motherwell, Robert</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3204/view">Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5215/Iris_Murdoch">Murdoch, Iris</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3205/view">To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5266/George_Jean_Nathan">Nathan, George Jean</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art raises its head where creeds relax. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3206/view">Art raises its head where creeds relax..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5347/Friedrich_Nietzsche">Nietzsche, Friedrich</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3207/view">Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5347/Friedrich_Nietzsche">Nietzsche, Friedrich</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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We have art in order not to die of the truth. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3208/view">We have art in order not to die of the truth..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5347/Friedrich_Nietzsche">Nietzsche, Friedrich</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3209/view">The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5395/Novalis">Novalis</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3210/view">Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5395/Novalis">Novalis</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3211/view">There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5522/Camille_Paglia">Paglia, Camille</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is a form of catharsis. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3212/view">Art is a form of catharsis..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5558/Dorothy_Parker">Parker, Dorothy</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3213/view">What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5607/Octavio_Paz">Paz, Octavio</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Wherever art appears, life disappears. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3214/view">Wherever art appears, life disappears..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5702/Francis_Picabia">Picabia, Francis</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3215/view">Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5703/Pablo_Picasso">Picasso, Pablo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3216/view">The people who make art their business are mostly impostors..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5703/Pablo_Picasso">Picasso, Pablo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3217/view">Through art we express our conception of what nature is not..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5703/Pablo_Picasso">Picasso, Pablo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3218/view">If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5703/Pablo_Picasso">Picasso, Pablo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3219/view">Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5703/Pablo_Picasso">Picasso, Pablo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3220/view">Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5703/Pablo_Picasso">Picasso, Pablo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3221/view">We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5703/Pablo_Picasso">Picasso, Pablo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3222/view">Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul. The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5759/Edgar_Allan_Poe">Poe, Edgar Allan</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3223/view">The hidden harmony is better than the obvious..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5783/Alexander_Pope">Pope, Alexander</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3224/view">But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5808/Ezra_Pound">Pound, Ezra</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3225/view">Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5808/Ezra_Pound">Pound, Ezra</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3226/view">Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5808/Ezra_Pound">Pound, Ezra</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3227/view">A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5853/Marcel_Proust">Proust, Marcel</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The perfection of art is to conceal art. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3228/view">The perfection of art is to conceal art..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5948/Edgar_Quinet">Quinet, Edgar</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3229/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5982/Ayn_Rand">Rand, Ayn</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3230/view">Art is too serious to be taken seriously..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6058/Ad_Reinhardt">Reinhardt, Ad</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci] <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3231/view">He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci].</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6068/Pierre_Auguste_Renoir">Renoir, Pierre Auguste</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3232/view">There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6096/Adrienne_Rich">Rich, Adrienne</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3233/view">Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6125/Laura_Riding">Riding, Laura</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3234/view">Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6136/Rainer_Maria_Rilke">Rilke, Rainer Maria</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.] <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3235/view">I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.].</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6194/Auguste_Rodin">Rodin, Auguste</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it? <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3236/view">What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6242/Harold_Rosenberg">Rosenberg, Harold</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3237/view">Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6242/Harold_Rosenberg">Rosenberg, Harold</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3238/view">Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6314/Jalal-Uddin_Rumi">Rumi, Jalal-Uddin</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3239/view">Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6322/Salman_Rushdie">Rushdie, Salman</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3240/view">What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6325/John_Ruskin">Ruskin, John</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3241/view">I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6325/John_Ruskin">Ruskin, John</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3242/view">No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6325/John_Ruskin">Ruskin, John</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3243/view">Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6418/George_Sand">Sand, George</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3244/view">The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6431/George_Santayana">Santayana, George</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3245/view">The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6496/Johann_Friedrich_Von_Schiller">Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3246/view">As noble Art has survived noble nature, so too she marches ahead of it, fashioning and awakening by her inspiration. Before Truth sends her triumphant light into the depths of the heart, imagination catches its rays, and the peaks of humanity will be glowing when humid night still lingers in the valleys..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6496/Johann_Friedrich_Von_Schiller">Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3247/view">Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6528/Robert_Schumann">Schumann, Robert</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3248/view">The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6528/Robert_Schumann">Schumann, Robert</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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All art is an imitation of nature. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3249/view">All art is an imitation of nature..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6599/Seneca">Seneca</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream] <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3250/view">The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream].</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6633/William_Shakespeare">Shakespeare, William</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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O, had I but followed the arts! <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3251/view">O, had I but followed the arts!.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6633/William_Shakespeare">Shakespeare, William</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3252/view">Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6649/George_Bernard_Shaw">Shaw, George Bernard</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is the signature of civilizations. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3253/view">Art is the signature of civilizations..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6716/Beverly_Sills">Sills, Beverly</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3254/view">The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6808/Logan_Pearsall_Smith">Smith, Logan Pearsall</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3255/view">Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6844/Alexander_Solzhenitsyn">Solzhenitsyn, Alexander</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3256/view">Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6851/Susan_Sontag">Sontag, Susan</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3257/view">The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6936/Gertrude_Stein">Stein, Gertrude</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3258/view">What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7111/Rabindranath_Tagore">Tagore, Rabindranath</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3259/view">Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7236/James_Thurber">Thurber, James</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3260/view">To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7258/Count_Leo_Tolstoy">Tolstoy, Count Leo</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3261/view">A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7299/Lionel_Trilling">Trilling, Lionel</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3262/view">All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7301/Alexander_Trocchi">Trocchi, Alexander</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3263/view">If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7307/Leon_Trotsky">Trotsky, Leon</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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If that's art, I'm a Hottentot! <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3264/view">If that's art, I'm a Hottentot!.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7317/Harry_S._Truman">Truman, Harry S.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3265/view">Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7359/Kenneth_Tynan">Tynan, Kenneth</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3266/view">Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7361/Tristan_Tzara">Tzara, Tristan</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3267/view">Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7377/Source_Unknown">Unknown, Source</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3268/view">Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7377/Source_Unknown">Unknown, Source</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3269/view">Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7377/Source_Unknown">Unknown, Source</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3270/view">It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7377/Source_Unknown">Unknown, Source</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3271/view">Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7377/Source_Unknown">Unknown, Source</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3272/view">Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7385/John_Updike">Updike, John</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3273/view">Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7412/Edward_Varese">Varese, Edward</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3274/view">The art of creation is older than the art of killing..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7462/Andrei_Voznesensky">Voznesensky, Andrei</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3275/view">An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7528/Andy_Warhol">Warhol, Andy</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3276/view">An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7562/Evelyn_Waugh">Waugh, Evelyn</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3277/view">Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7585/Simone_Weil">Weil, Simone</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3278/view">Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7638/Rebecca_West">West, Rebecca</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3279/view">Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7679/Alfred_North_Whitehead">Whitehead, Alfred North</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3280/view">In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7717/Oscar_Wilde">Wilde, Oscar</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3281/view">Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7717/Oscar_Wilde">Wilde, Oscar</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3282/view">No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7717/Oscar_Wilde">Wilde, Oscar</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3283/view">Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7717/Oscar_Wilde">Wilde, Oscar</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3284/view">Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7717/Oscar_Wilde">Wilde, Oscar</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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All art is quite useless. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3285/view">All art is quite useless..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7717/Oscar_Wilde">Wilde, Oscar</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3286/view">Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7717/Oscar_Wilde">Wilde, Oscar</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3287/view">The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7773/Robert_Wilson">Wilson, Robert</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3288/view">The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7789/Winkelmann">Winkelmann</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3289/view">This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7820/Thomas_Wolfe">Wolfe, Thomas</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3290/view">The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7820/Thomas_Wolfe">Wolfe, Thomas</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3291/view">It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7831/George_E._Woodberry">Woodberry, George E.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life? <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3292/view">Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7846/William_Wordsworth">Wordsworth, William</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3293/view">Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7856/Frank_Lloyd_Wright">Wright, Frank Lloyd</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3294/view">Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7910/Cao_Yu">Yu Cao</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3295/view">There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7928/Mao_Zedong">Zedong, Mao</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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I am an artist I am here to live out loud. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/3296/view">I am an artist I am here to live out loud..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/7955/Emile_Zola">Zola, Emile</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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