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Emerson said that music helps people to find the greatness in their souls. The same can be said about any form of art.
Leo Tolstoy
Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
Oscar Wilde
All art is quite useless.
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
Wilson Mizner
A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.
Kemal Ataturk
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Colors are light's suffering and joy
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Max Eastman
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
William S. Burroughs
It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
Jack White
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
Albert Einstein
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Steve Martin
Men say they know many things;But lo! they have taken wings, The arts and sciences,And a thousand appliances;The wind that blowsIs all that any body knows
Henry David Thoreau
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.
James Baldwin
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
Jean Cocteau
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
Thomas Aquinas
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Edward Steichen
Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.
Jerry Saltz
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
Jim Davis
