“The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.”
— E. M. Forster
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Willem de Kooning is generally credited for
“Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.”
— Jerry Saltz
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All art is but imitation of nature.
“All art is but imitation of nature.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Every production of an artist should be
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
— W. Somerset Maugham
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My trade and art is to live.
“My trade and art is to live.”
— Michel de Montaigne
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What can be more foolish than to
“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!”
— Anatole France
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Being an artist is dragging your innermost
“Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.”
— Henry Rollins
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual
“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”
— Susan Sontag
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Art produces ugly things which frequently become
“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”
— Jean Cocteau
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Art has a double face, of expression
“Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.”
— Publilius Syrus
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What garlic is to salad, insanity is
“What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.”
— Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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