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Artists Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
- The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
- Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
- The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe…
- It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that…
- Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen,…
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- Competitions are for horses, not artists. — Bela Bartok
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- Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. — John Berger
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