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A creation of importance
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A guilty conscienceA guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus
A priesthoodArt is not a pastime but a priesthood.
Jean Cocteau
Adventure of his soulEvery production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham
An artistAn artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Jean Cocteau
An artist cannot failAn artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley
Children and artAll children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
Except in ParisAn artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Friedrich Nietzsche
For art to existFor art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Frozen musicI call architecture frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Human natureReally I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
Virginia Woolf
ImaginationThere is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
Sean O Faolain
Incomprehensible work of artTo say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Leo Tolstoy
InvestigationArt is an investigation.
Twyla Tharp
It never improvesArt never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
T. S. Eliot
It raises its headArt raises its head where creeds relax.
Friedrich Nietzsche
keeping a diaryPainting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
LifeLife beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler
Life is shortLife is short, the art long.
Hippocrates
Never finishedArt is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci
Nothing new in artThere is nothing new in art except talent.
Anton Chekhov
Painting and poetryPainting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Leonardo da Vinci
Run awayArt is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Twyla Tharp
Spirit workingWhere the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci
The aim of every artistThe aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkner
The business of artThe business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
D. H. Lawrence
The essential function of artThe essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
D. H. Lawrence
The progress of an artistThe progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot
The role of the artistThe role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
Anton Chekhov
TransformationThere are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
Pablo Picasso
What I paintI don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Henri Matisse
What is art?Art is the objectification of feeling.
Herman Melville
Work of artA work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Alexander Pope
