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| A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. (Oscar Wilde) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. (Oscar Wilde) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. (Edith Wharton) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. (Orson Welles) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A critic is a legless man who teaches running. (Unknown) | [▲] | [▼] |
| What garlic is to food, insanity is to art. (Unknown) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. (Leo Tolstoy) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus. (William Blake) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. (Simonides) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. (Johann Von Schiller) | [▲] | [▼] |
| He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. (John Ruskin) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. (Kate Reid) | [▲] | [▼] |
| One must act in painting as in life, directly. (Pablo Picasso) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nat (Harriet Ward Beecher) | [▲] | [▼] |
| But that's what being an artist is - feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy. (New Yorker) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. (Jawaharial Nehru) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have o (Stella Adler) | [▲] | [▼] |
| You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational (George Herman) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Art is either plagiarism or revolution. (Paul Guaguin) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. (Baltasar Gracian) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. (Andre Gide) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Art is either a plagiarist or a revolutionist. (Paul Gauguin) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom. (Robert Frost) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. (E.M. Forster) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to criti (Henry Fielding) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. (William Faulkner) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Every artist writes his own autobiography. (Havelock Ellis) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible thin (Leonardo Da Vinci) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any. (Emma Albani) | [▲] | [▼] |