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What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
Category: Art Author: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.
Category: Art Author: Agnes Repplier
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Art disturbs, science reassures.
Category: Art Author: Georges Braque
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As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
Category: Art Author: John Lubbock
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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
Category: Art Author: Loren Eiseley
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Art is spirituality in drag.
Category: Art Author: Jennifer Yane
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Reflexes and instincts are not pretty. It is their decoration that initiates art.
Category: Art Author: Martin H Fischer
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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
Category: Art Author: Willa Cather
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
Category: Art Author: George Santayana
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Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Category: Art Author: Elbert Hubbard
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Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Category: Art Author: Lincoln Steffens
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An artist's career always begins tomorrow.
Category: Art Author: James McNeill Whistler
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Surely nothing has to listen to so many stupid remarks as a painting in a museum.
Category: Art Author: Jules de Goncourt
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
Category: Art Author: Andre Malraux
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An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.
Category: Art Author: Paul Valery
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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Category: Art Author: Willa Cather
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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
Category: Art Author: Oscar Wilde
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An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Category: Art Author: Jean Cocteau
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The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is.
Category: Art Author: Alfred Tonnelle
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A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Category: Art Author: Albert Camus
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