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Quote 3122
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 3121
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 3116
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its processby: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 3114
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 3013
Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent timesby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2967
Nature is a revelation of God; art is a revelation of manShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2961
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poeticalShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2894
The most accomplished monkey cannot draw a monkey, this only man can do; just as it is also only man who regards his ability to do this as a distinct meritShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2840
Never trust the artist. Trust the taleShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2800
Museums are the cemeteries of the artsShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2790
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answerby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2783
The agitator seizes the world. The artist is seized by itby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2732
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subjectby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2726
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at allby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2717
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembranceby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2715
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporateby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2703
I am fit for nothing but literatureby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2638
As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.by: John KebleShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2572
An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerityShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2558
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.Showing Quotes on art
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Quote 2544
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its authorShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2532
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frameShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2525
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheeseShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2510
There is nothing new in art except talentby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2509
A book ought to be the ax to break the frozen sea within usby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2497
An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brainsby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2480
“Literature - the expression of a nation's mind in writingShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2371
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workmanShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2361
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well, and of others not to write at allShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2345
Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocksShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2335
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonablyShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2332
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speakingShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2319
It requires more than mere genius to be an authorShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2318
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.Showing Quotes on art
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Quote 2306
One may do whatever one likes in art: the only thing is to make sure that one does not like itby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2194
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.Showing Quotes on art
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Quote 2130
The arts of peace are great, And no less glorious than those of warby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2125
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.by: William BlakeShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2110
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really doesby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2090
He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposterby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2072
It is from the womb of art that criticism was bornShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2068
It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.Showing Quotes on art
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Quote 2064
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to createShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2063
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything elseShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2061
Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetryShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2060
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovableShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2058
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an artShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 2004
Nature is the art of Godby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1805
I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed upby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1799
An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audienceby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1793
Music, the greatest good that mortals know, and all of heaven we have belowby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1757
A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human natureby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1744
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soulby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1674
Libraries are not made, they growShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1659
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancingby: Marcus AureliusShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1655
Life is not an exact science, it is an artby: Samuel ButlerShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1634
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.Showing Quotes on art
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Quote 1617
I wish I could write as mysterious as a catby: Edgar Allan PoeShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1582
The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing themby: MoliereShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1449
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagineShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1448
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sumShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1447
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go togetherby: John RuskinShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1446
Every artist was first an amateurShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1445
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.Showing Quotes on art
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Quote 1444
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitudeShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1442
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anythingby: Gustave FlaubertShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1441
Art is the proper task of lifeShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1440
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.by: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1439
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.Showing Quotes on art
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Quote 1438
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truthby: John RuskinShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1437
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealedby: Khalil GibranShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1436
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.Showing Quotes on art
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Quote 1435
All art is but imitation of natureShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1434
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperamentShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1433
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.Showing Quotes on art
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Quote 1432
Life imitates art far more than art imitates lifeShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1431
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourseby: Francis BaconShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1430
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.Showing Quotes on art
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Quote 1429
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.Showing Quotes on art
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Quote 1428
The history of art is the history of revivalsby: Samuel ButlerShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1427
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.Showing Quotes on art
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Quote 1425
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beautyby: Alfred de VignyShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1424
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has knownShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1423
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.by: Robert SchumannShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1422
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfectionby: MichelangeloShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1421
A man paints with his brains and not with his handsby: MichelangeloShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1420
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fedShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1419
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frameShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1418
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to othersby: Jonathan SwiftShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1417
A picture is worth a thousand wordsby: NapoleonShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1416
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confessionby: Albert CamusShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1392
Love is the poetry of the senses.by: Honore de BalzacShowing Quotes on art
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Quote 1263
The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exerciseby: Thomas SydenhamShowing Quotes on art
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