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After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are… — Albert Einstein
One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it. — Robert Browning
Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others. — Walter Lippmann
Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen. — Ralph Richardson
Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental. — George Santayana
There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go… — Clarence Day
When you've always worked hard in the theater, you find that when you stop playing at the end of a run, the evenings seem very… — Rex Harrison
Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them… — William Hazlitt
Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room. — W. Somerset Maugham
The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life. — George Santayana
You put on a face for the public. The face isn't false; it's just another side of you. If it were false, you couldn't last.… — James Garner
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an… — W. Somerset Maugham
Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only… — George Santayana
He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist. — Anton Chekhov
The greatest respect an artist can pay to music is to give it life. — Pablo Casals
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. — Jackson Pollock
An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under… — Henri Matisse
Every man is an artist. — Joseph Beuys
The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically. — Wassily Kandinsky
The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space. — Mark Tobey
The great artist is the simplifier. — Vincent Van Gogh
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty,… — Dani Shapiro

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