Art Quotes and Quotations
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Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.
Flannery O'Connor
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
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Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
Confucius
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
J. D. Salinger
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In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
Rumi
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And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.
Lady Gaga
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Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.
Vincent Van Gogh
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There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
Leonardo da Vinci
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The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
Leonardo da Vinci
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A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dalí
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
Salvador Dalí
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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
