Arts And Artists

(114 votes)   In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Luis Bunuel
1900-1983, Spanish Film Director

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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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(106 votes)   Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Ludwig Van Beethoven
1770-1827, German Composer

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(105 votes)   Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher

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(104 votes)   In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(104 votes)   The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Max Jacob

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(100 votes)   It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

George E. Woodberry
1855-1930, American Literary Critic

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(99 votes)   Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Neal Cassady
1926-1968, American Beat Hero

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(99 votes)   Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Nadine Gordimer
1923-, South African Author

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(99 votes)   He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]

Pierre Auguste Renoir
1841-1919, French Impressionist Artist

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(98 votes)   This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

Salvador Dali
1904-1989, Spanish Painter

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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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(97 votes)   Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author

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(96 votes)   Art is science made clear.

Jean Cocteau
1889-1963, French Author, Filmmaker

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(96 votes)   There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Salvador Dali
1904-1989, Spanish Painter

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