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Quotes about art
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“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”
“Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.”
“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
“Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.”
“The true art of memory is the art of attention.”
“All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.”
“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”
“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”
“Pictures must not be too picturesque.”
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
“Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.”
“The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.”
“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”
“Personality is everything in art and poetry.”
“Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.”
“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”
“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.”
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”