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Edith Wharton on art
Author: Edith Wharton“Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.” -Edith Wharton
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Kristin Scott Thomas on art
Author: Kristin Scott Thomas“In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.’” -Kristin Scott Thomas
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Alberto Giacometti on art
Author: Alberto Giacometti“In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist’s obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.” -Alberto Giacometti
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Judy Chicago on art
Author: Judy Chicago“I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.” -Judy Chicago
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Henri Frederic Amiel on art
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel“To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.” -Henri Frederic
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Beverly Sills on art
Author: Beverly Sills“Art is the signature of civilizations.” -Beverly Sills
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W. H. Auden on art
Author: W. H. Auden“All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.” -W. H. Auden
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Arthur Erickson on art
Author: Arthur Erickson“The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.” -Arthur Erickson
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Jean Anouilh on art
Author: Jean Anouilh“Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It’s the aim of art to give it some.” -Jean Anouilh
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Pablo Casals on art
Author: Pablo Casals“The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.” -Pablo Casals
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Max Beerbohm on art
Author: Max Beerbohm“When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.” -Max Beerbohm
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Maria Callas on art
Author: Maria Callas“I don’t need the money, dear. I work for art.” -Maria Callas
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Max Beckmann on art
Author: Max Beckmann“Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement… for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.” -Max Beckmann
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Franklin P. Jones on art
Author: Franklin P. Jones“Originality is the art of concealing your source.” -Franklin P. Jones
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Beatrice Wood on art
Author: Beatrice Wood“And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.” -Beatrice Wood
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Peter Hammill on art
Author: Peter Hammill“Actually I think Art lies in both directions – the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.” -Peter Hammill
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Billie Joe Armstrong on art
Author: Billie Joe Armstrong“I’d love to go to art school. I’d love to learn how to draw. I’d love to be fluent in Spanish. I’d like to be a brain surgeon.” -Billie Joe Armstrong
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Albrecht Durer on art
Author: Albrecht Durer“As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.” -Albrecht Durer
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Alvar Aalto on art
Author: Alvar Aalto“Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.” -Alvar Aalto
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Havelock Ellis on art
Author: Havelock Ellis“It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.” -Havelock Ellis
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John Updike on art
Author: John Updike“Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.” -John Updike
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Jackson Pollock on art
Author: Jackson Pollock“The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.” -Jackson Pollock
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Marshall McLuhan on art
Author: Marshall McLuhan“I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.” -Marshall McLuhan
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Laura Riding on art
Author: Laura Riding“Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.” -Laura Riding