Arts And Artists

(49 votes)   Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

Kenneth Tynan
1927-1980, British Critic

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(49 votes)   Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(49 votes)   I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. [when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues.]

Auguste Rodin
1840-1917, French Sculptor

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(49 votes)   Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Pauline Kael
1919-, American Film Critic

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(49 votes)   It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(48 votes)   Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Source Unknown

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(48 votes)   No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(48 votes)   The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Andrei Voznesensky

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(48 votes)   There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Vaclav Havel
1936-, Czech Playwright, President

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(47 votes)   Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(47 votes)   Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(47 votes)   As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Stephen Bayley
1951-, British Design Critic

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(47 votes)   The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author

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(47 votes)   The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Edgar Quinet
1803-1875, French Poet, Historian, Politician

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(46 votes)   I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.

John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

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