Henry Miller
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
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Marshall McLuhan
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
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Clara Schumann
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
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E. M. Forster
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
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John Updike
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
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Robert Schumann
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
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William Wordsworth
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
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Barbra Streisand
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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Wilson Mizner
Art is science made clear.
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William Hazlitt
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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Lionel Trilling
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
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John Berger
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
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Theodor Adorno
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
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Federico Fellini
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
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Theodor Adorno
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
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Jean Anouilh
Things are beautiful if you love them.
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Henri Matisse
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
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David Hockney
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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Friedrich Schiller
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
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Gustave Flaubert
Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
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Paul Gauguin
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
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Igor Stravinsky
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Novalis
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Henry Moore
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
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Friedrich Schiller
Art is the daughter of freedom.
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Havelock Ellis
Every artist writes his own autobiography.
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Marc Chagall
Great art picks up where nature ends.
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Robert Mapplethorpe
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
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Quintilian
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Jackson Pollock
My painting does not come from the easel.
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Stephen Sondheim
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
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Henri Matisse
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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Andre Malraux
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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Theodore Dreiser
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
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Francis Ford Coppola
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
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Henri Matisse
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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Robert Motherwell
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
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Laurie Anderson
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
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Edgard Varese
An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
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Paul Getty
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.
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Roy Lichtenstein
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
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Auguste Rodin
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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Arthur Erickson
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
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Cyril Connolly
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
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Edward Steichen
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
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Robert Mapplethorpe
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
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Tadao Ando
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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James Taylor
That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
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Jerzy Kosinski
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
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