Arts And Artists

(58 votes)   Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause --it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.

Harold Rosenberg
1906-1978, American Art Critic, 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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(54 votes)   Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes --love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself --and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others --should we call it ''joy''?

Andrea Dworkin
1946-, American Feminist Critic

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(54 votes)   New arts destroy the old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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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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(53 votes)   Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

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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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(52 votes)   The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

John Drummond

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(51 votes)   The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(51 votes)   To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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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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(50 votes)   Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

William Morris
1834-1896, British Artist, Writer, Printer

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(50 votes)   Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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(49 votes)   Art has an enemy called ignorance.

Ben Johnson
1600-?British Clergyman, Poet

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