Arts And Artists

(152 votes)   A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(182 votes)   A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Edmond and Jules De Goncourt
1822-1896, French Writers

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(52 votes)   A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

Lionel Trilling
1905-1975, American Critic

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(52 votes)   All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(50 votes)   All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.

Alexander Trocchi
1925-1983, Italian-Scottish Novelist, Poet, Translator

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(114 votes)   An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Willem De Kooning
1904-, Dutch-born American Artist

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(63 votes)   An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Evelyn Waugh
1903-1966, British Novelist

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(97 votes)   Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised.

James Thurber
1894-1961, American Humorist, Illustrator

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(62 votes)   Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Jean-Luc Godard
1930-, French Filmmaker, Author

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(54 votes)   Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(53 votes)   Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao
1910-, Chinese Dramatist

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(113 votes)   Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden... it is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist

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(49 votes)   Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Ben Johnson
1600-?British Clergyman, Poet

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(67 votes)   Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

John Updike
1932-, American Novelist, Critic

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(94 votes)   Art is a form of catharsis.

Dorothy Parker
1893-1967, American Humorous Writer

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