Artistic Quotes

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Keep to yourself the final touches of your art. — Baltasar Gracian
A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh. — Cesare Pavese
The outer ring of Christianity is a rigid guard of ethical abnegations and professional priests; but inside that inhuman guard you will find the old… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to… — John F. Kennedy
I did my New York debut at 21. It was 'On the Town' at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home. — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside… — William Lyon Phelps
Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy. — John Wilmot
Imitation is criticism. — William Blake
I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and… — Leonard Bernstein
We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a… — Sigmund Freud
Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be… — Gary Saul Morson
The market kills more artistic passion than anything else. — Robert James Waller
In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting. — Kenneth E. Boulding
You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life,… — Elbert Hubbard
True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down. — Oliver Goldsmith
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten… — Alfred North Whitehead
When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was… — Blaise Pascal
Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof. — Stephen Leacock
Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and… — Raymond Chandler
Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when - — Arthur Guiterman
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject. — Henri Matisse
A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field. — Anton Chekhov
Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience. — Samuel Beckett
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the… — Clive James

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