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Artist Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
- An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same…
- The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
- In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious,…
- The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the…
- The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
- An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself…
- As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those things are learned…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu