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Artists Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.
- All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by…
- What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.
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- A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. — Honore de Balzac
- We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it. — John Banville
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- Competitions are for horses, not artists. — Bela Bartok
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- To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously… — Arnold Bennett
- I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book… — Ezra Taft Benson
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