Arts And Artists

(94 votes)   Art is a form of catharsis.

Dorothy Parker
1893-1967, American Humorous Writer

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(94 votes)   Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

J. G. Ballard
1930-, British Author

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(93 votes)   The true poem is the poet's mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(93 votes)   Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ''the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.'' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ''Artist.''

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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(91 votes)   The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(91 votes)   Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Francis Picabia
1878-1953, French Painter, Poet

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(89 votes)   The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(86 votes)   Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(85 votes)   Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Pablo Picasso
1881-1973, Spanish Artist

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(80 votes)   Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(79 votes)   Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

Angela Carter
1940-1992, British Author

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(79 votes)   The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Charles Baudelaire
1821-1867, French Poet

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(78 votes)   It is either easy or impossible.

Salvador Dali
1904-1989, Spanish Painter

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(78 votes)   There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Camille Paglia
1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator

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(77 votes)   Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead
1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher

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