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Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.
George Steiner
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
Josh Billings
Any work of art that makes us feel the artist tried too hard lacks clarity.
Clayton Whitehill
Film contains potentialities for the combination of all the arts such as Wagner never dreamt of.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
Richard Avedon
Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
Oscar Wilde
You could appreciate the beauty of the world by trying to paint it.
Evelyn Waugh
If debates about beauty in nineteenth-centuryFrance were ?erce, that was because beauty was seen to matter. Thiswas a world of political revolutions, of social reformism, of belief inprogress and human perfectibility. Why was it that beauty mattered somuch in such a world?.
Elizabeth Prettejohn
Art doesn't have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful.
Duane Hanson
There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.
Jonathan Safran Foer
I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
Francis Ford Coppola
I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.
Tony Hawk
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The arts babblative and scribblative.
Robert Southey
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Dreiser
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Ulysses S. Grant
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
Jerry Saltz
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Fran Lebowitz
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
Robert Redford
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
