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Category Art
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| Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. Author Albert Camus Resistance, Rebellion, and Death | ||||
| An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. Author Charles Horton Cooley Life and the Student | ||||
| When one buys some of my artwork I hope it is because they will wish to learn from it and not because they think it will match their drapes! Author Christian Cardell Corbet 1997 | ||||
| The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. Author Friedrich Nietzsche | ||||
| The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon The Arts | ||||
| 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. Author Henri Matisse Notebooks | ||||
| I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' Author Igor Stravinsky "London Magazine", March, 1967 | ||||
| Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. Author Kahlil Gibran "A Handful of Sand on the Shore" | ||||
| All art is but imitation of nature. Author Lucius Annaeus Seneca | ||||
| The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. Author Max Eastman | ||||
| I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Author Michelangelo | ||||
| Un croquis vaut mieux qu’un long discours. Author Napoleon | ||||
| All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. Author Oscar Wilde "The Decay of Living", 1891 | ||||
| In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. Author Paul Gauguin | ||||
| Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. Author Percy Wynham Lewis The Art of Being Ruled | ||||
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