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Quotes of the Week - May 15, 2012:
"His timing was perfect: As women's hair was liberated, so were
their lives." -- Linda Wells, Allure magazine Editor-in-Chief,
describing Vidal Sassoon, the late iconic hairstylist, as a feminist
pioneer due to the haircuts he created for women in 1960s.
"It is important for me personally to go ahead and affirm that
same-sex couples should be able to get married." -- Barack Obama,
U.S. president, becoming the first sitting American head of state to
declare his support for gay marriage.
"Above all else, we both agree that President Obama must be defeated.
The task will not be easy." -- Rick Santorum, former Republican
presidential candidate, endorsing onetime rival Mitt Romney.
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The business of art is to reveal the relation
between man and his environment.
D. H. Lawrence
The course of Nature is the art of God.
Edward Young
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Max Eastman
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake
the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often
has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil
he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to
sleep.
Marc Chagall
The finest collection of frames I ever saw.
Sir Humphrey Davy
His opinion of the art galleries in Paris.
The great artist is the simplifier.
Vincent Van Gogh
The history of art is the history of revivals.
Samuel Butler
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive
loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern
of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
Paul Gauguin
The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
Lionel Trilling
The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon
The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people
want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist,
and becomes a dull or an amusing craftsman, an honest or dishonest
tradesman.
Oscar Wilde
The Soul of Man under Socialism.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom
this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Pierre Auguste Renoir
On why he still painted although he had
arthritis of his hands.
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Pablo Picasso
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away
such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process
of elimination.
Elbert Green Hubbard
The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old
rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things…those
scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.
John Constable
The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less
problems.
Andy Warhol
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot,
his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work
at anything but his art.
George Bernard Shaw
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Michelangelo
The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures
that do?
Pablo Picasso
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse
There are moments when Art almost attains to the dignity of
manual labor.
Oscar Wilde
The Model Millionaire.
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom
of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and
the monk who renounces possessions.
Anais Nin
There 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 the sun.
Pablo Picasso
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something.
Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso
There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the
hall.
Cyril Connolly
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter
than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first
to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
Henri Matisse
They have degraded the invisible arts into the obvious arts,
and the one thing not worth looking at is the obvious.
Oscar Wilde
The Critic as Artist.
Thirst will parch your tongue and your body will waste through
lack of sleep ere you can describe in words that which painting
instantly sets before the eye.
Leonardo da Vinci
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these
values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more
a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Henri Matisse
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the
duty of the artist.
Robert Schumann
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative
artist.
Albert Einstein
True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
Auguste Rodin
True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance,
'Tis not enough no Harshness gives Offence,
The Sound must seem an Echo to the Sense.
Alexander Pope
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore
both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by
making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write
or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Fran Lebowitz
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us
realize truth.
Pablo Picasso.
Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water
is water! And East is East and West is West and if you take
cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more
like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh . . . now you tell me
what you know.
Groucho Marx
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should
call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in
nature through the veil of the mist."
Edgar Allan Poe
What a great artist dies with me.
Nero
What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes
if he's a painter, ears if he's a musician, or a lyre in every
chamber of his heart if he's a poet or even, if he's a boxer,
only some muscles? Quite the contrary, he is at the same time
a political being constantly alert to the horrifying, passionate
or pleasing events in the world, shaping himself completely
in their image.
Pablo Picasso
What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity
devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter.
Henri Matisse
What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred
doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one
lucky bastard who's the artist.
Tom Stoppard
Travesties.
What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the
painter, and then the painting.
Vincent Van Gogh
What Raphael knew of art he learned from me.
Michelangelo
Michelangelo told his biographer Condivi
that Raphael copied his work.
What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment
the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying
past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
Willa Cather
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up
to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand -
as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man
cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between
the two, it's bad art.
Marc Chagall
When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become
a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll
end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter, and wound
up Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
When I was the age of these children, I could draw like Raphael:
it took me many years to learn how to draw like these children.
Pablo Picasso
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
John Ruskin
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci
Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by
cutting out his own tongue.
Henri Matisse
Why drag in Velasquez?
James McNeill Whistler
To a lady who said the two greatest painters
were himself and Velasquez.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restrains it
imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material
universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though
I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for
Art's sake.
E. M. Forster
You do something, and then somebody else comes along and does
it pretty.
Pablo Picasso
You must have the devil in you to succeed in any of the arts.
Voltaire
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art
to see your soul.
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