Artistic Quotes
855 Artistic quotes by 700 unique authors
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Keep to yourself the final touches of your art.
— Baltasar Gracian
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A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.
— Cesare Pavese
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.
— John Wilmot
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Imitation is criticism.
— William Blake
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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
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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
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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
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The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.
— Robert James Waller
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In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
— Stephen Leacock
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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
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Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when -
— Arthur Guiterman
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A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
— Henri Matisse
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A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.
— Anton Chekhov
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Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.
— Samuel Beckett
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Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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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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