Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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Oscar Wilde
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
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Pablo Picasso
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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Winston Churchill
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every artist was first an amateur.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
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Oscar Wilde
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
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Thomas Merton
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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Oscar Wilde
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
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Albert Camus
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
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Henry David Thoreau
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
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James Whistler
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
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Khalil Gibran
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
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Scott Adams
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
A picture is worth a thousand words.
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Anaïs Nin
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Twyla Tharp
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
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Henry Miller
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the proper task of life.
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George Bernard Shaw
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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Salvador Dali
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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Elbert Hubbard
Art is not a thing it is a way.
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Ansel Adams
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
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Jonathan Swift
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
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Horace
A picture is a poem without words.
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Albert Camus
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
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Elbert Hubbard
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
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Georgia O'Keeffe
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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Michelangelo
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
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Andy Warhol
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
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Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
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Hedy Lamarr
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
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Pablo Picasso
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
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Charles Horton Cooley
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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Ambrose Bierce
Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
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Andre Gide
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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Edgar Degas
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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Dale Carnegie
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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Fran Lebowitz
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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Pablo Picasso
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Anatole France
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Miguel Angel Ruiz
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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