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134 quotes (Page 5 of 6 pages)The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
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Max Eastman
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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
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George Santayana
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.
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Lester Bangs
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Christian Nevell Bovee
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The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
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Alexander Pope
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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Professor Blackie
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
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Max Jacob
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
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Robert Wilson
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
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Paul Klee
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The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
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Hilton Kramer
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The object of art is to give life a shape. [Midsummer Nights Dream]
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William Shakespeare
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The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.
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Pablo Picasso
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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Edgar Quinet
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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T. S. Eliot
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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Andre Gide
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The true poem is the poet's mind.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
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There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
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Salvador Dali
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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
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Salvador Dali
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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
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Thomas Wolfe
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Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.
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Pablo Picasso
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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
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George Jean Nathan
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun