Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In art the best is good enough.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Carl Rogers
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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Andy Warhol
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
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Pablo Picasso
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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Marshall McLuhan
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Paul Valery
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
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Michelangelo
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
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John Ruskin
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
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Ambrose Bierce
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
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Carroll O'Connor
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
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George Santayana
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
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Honore de Balzac
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
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Dorothea Lange
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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Leo Tolstoy
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.
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Salvador Dali
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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Gertrude Stein
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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Helen Hayes
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
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John Ruskin
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
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Walt Whitman
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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Ansel Adams
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
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W. Somerset Maugham
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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Ansel Adams
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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Hendrik Willem Van Loon
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
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Henry A. Kissinger
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
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Francis Bacon
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
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George Edward Moore
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
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Gustave Flaubert
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Al Capp
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Emile Zola
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Paul Cezanne
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.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
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Jackson Pollock
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
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Jean Cocteau
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
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Salvador Dali
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Jackson Pollock
Every good painter paints what he is.
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Samuel Butler
The history of art is the history of revivals.
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David Herbert Lawrence
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
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Alexander Pope
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
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E. M. Forster
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
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Michelangelo
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
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Andre Gide
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
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Harry S. Truman
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
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