Quotes with art-forms

Quotes 141 till 160 of 1032.

  • John Updike Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • André Gide Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Dorothy Parker Art is a form of catharsis.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Tristan Tzara Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
    Tristan Tzara
    Romanian poet and artist (ps. by Sami Rosenstock) (1896 - 1963)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Ayn Rand Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Charlotte Saunders Cushman Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
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  • Octavio Paz Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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  • Ad Reinhardt Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
    Ad Reinhardt
    American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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  • Al Jourgensen Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.
    Al Jourgensen
    Cuban-American singer-songwriter, musician (1958 - )
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  • Auguste Rodin Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Anthony Burgess Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Paul Guaguin Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
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  • Boris Pasternak Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Frank Zappa Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • William Morris Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
    William Morris
    British artist, writer (1834 - 1896)
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  • Philip James Bailey Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.
    Philip James Bailey
    English Spasmodic poet (1816 - 1902)
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