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[from Some words about ‘War and Peace’]For a historian considering the achievement of a certain aim, there are heroes; for the artist treating of a man’s relation to all sides of life there cannot and...

—Leo Tolstoy

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Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of...

—Louis de

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Look at this one.” I picked up a small painting of a man with dark hair and a short, dark beard. He wore a loose shirt, cobalt blue, unbuttoned at the top, showing a prominent,...

—Laura Anderson

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In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

—Marc Chagall

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Art is the refreshing source of existence.

—Kristian Goldmund

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Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

—Joanna Russ

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I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

—Marilyn Manson

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I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.

—Juan Miro

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The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the...

—Marcel Duchamp

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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

—Maggie Nelson

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Time is the art of God.

—Khalid Masood

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Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

—Joris-Karl Huysmans

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Hidden away behind the closed doors of aristocratic and bourgeois privilege, concealed under those ultra-respectable masks of black frock coat and veil, the green glow of corruption flickers into sight, steadies, and spreads everywhere, fostered...

—Jennifer Birkett

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Maro, you’ give me nothing while you live, but, after death, you cry, then, you’ll give; If thou art not indeed turned arrant ass, Thou know’st what I desire to come to pass

—Marcus Aurelius

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Your personal truth is your gift to the world.

—Jennifer Elisabeth

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He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.

—Jennifer Elisabeth

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I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.

—Orhan Pamuk

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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

—Pablo Picasso

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The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

—Pablo Picasso

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She gave life a meaning. She was art, dressed like a painters pallet, bright and unaware of how goddam beautiful she could be turned into; with the right touch, her smile was the brush and...

—Nikki Rowe

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Art is LIFE.

—Marcy Ferro

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You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.

—Lynda Barry

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Good music can act as a guide to good living.

—Kay Larson

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…I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you’re actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue …

—John Geddes

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Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen...

—Joseph Campbell

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

—Oscar Wilde

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Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching

—Neville Weston

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It is quite possible–overwhelmingly probable, one might guess–that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

—Noam Chomsky

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When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul’s call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.

—Steven Pressfield

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I will call up some key collectors before an art fair happens and say, ‘You should buy this,’ and without even seeing the piece, they’ll buy it. Twice it’s happened with this one collector –...

—Steven Sacks

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It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first...

—Albert Camus

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When you give me art—give me something that reaches inside of my core and twists, taking the very breath that sustains me away.Give me something that wakens me from my lethargy.Give me something that causes...

—Suzanne Steele

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After the great Impressionists, and again after Van Gogh and Gaugin, people said, ‘Painting is now played out.’ But Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Roussel and Vuillard appeared and gave them the lie. ‘We were wrong,’ said...

—Ambroise Vollard

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ArtArtists
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No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

—Rob Liano

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I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. When you read some books they are fantastic, the writer touches something in you that...

—Arsene Wenger

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Building positive customer experiences will help create passionate customers who will spread your message on their behalf – almost like an evangelist.

—Simon Zingerman

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What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

—Willa Cather

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In the case of someone who is spiritual receptive, it is possible to talk of an analogy between the impact made by a work of art and that of a purely religious experience. Arts acts...

—Andrei Tarkovsky

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Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

—Ray Bradbury

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ArtFearLife
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I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.

—Arthur Holitscher

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And in fact the artist’s experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and...

—Rainer Maria

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An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.

—Chaim Potok

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The motivation of all artists is ‘Look at me, Mum’.

—Sebastian Horsley

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It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

—Alain de Botton

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Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn’t give you what you desire – it tells you how to desire.

—Slavoj Žižek

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As I stated earlier, I do not believe there is anything inherently wrong with even the most overused elements of epic fantasy. Magic swords, dragons, destined heroes — even dark lords and ultimate evils can...

—Alec Austin

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A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

—Vikas Swarup

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ArtGenreLife
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To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

—Ben Shahn

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AbstractArtArtist
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When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.

—Tyler Shields

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ArtArtist
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What is this film (Mirror) about?It is about a Man. No, not the particular man whose voice we hear from behind the screen, played by Innokentiy Smoktunovsky. It’s a film about you, your father, your...

—andrey tarkovsky

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