Arts And Artists

(73 votes)   Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Gunther Grass
1927-, German Author

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(72 votes)   Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(72 votes)   Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(71 votes)   Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

Guy Debord
1931-, French Philosopher

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(71 votes)   Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(70 votes)   I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.

John Berger
1926-, British Actor, Critic

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(70 votes)   The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(70 votes)   The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(69 votes)   Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(68 votes)   Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Robert Menzies
1894-1978, Australian Liberal Politician, Prime Minister

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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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(66 votes)   Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

William S. Burroughs
1914-1997, American Writer

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(64 votes)   Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(64 votes)   It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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(64 votes)   We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Pablo Picasso
1881-1973, Spanish Artist

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