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Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Havelock Ellis
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
George Bernard Shaw
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert Einstein
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci
Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity.
Leo Tolstoy
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali
In art the best is good enough.
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Andre Gide
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
Edward Hopper
The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.
Jerry Saltz
Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Albert Camus
It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Thomas Mann
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature alone is illimitably rich, and Nature alone forms the great artist.
It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.
I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
Shia LaBeouf