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"All art is quite useless."
Oscar Wilde
"One ought, each day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best."
Marcel Proust
"Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him."
Carl Jung
"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
George Bernard Shaw
"The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow."
Kurt Vonnegut
"All good art is about something deeper than it admits."
Roger Ebert
"The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you."
James Michener
"I don't work according to nature, but infront and together with it. An artist must observe the nature, but never confuse it with the art."
Pablo Picasso
"A painter is a man who paints what he sells. An artist, however, is a man that sells what he paints."
Pablo Picasso
"Bad artists copy. Great artists steal."
Pablo Picasso
"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things."
Pablo Picasso
"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."
Andy Warhol
"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he— for some reason— thinks it would be a good idea to give them."
Andy Warhol
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adams
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
Pablo Picasso
"People can misinterpret almost anything so that it coincides with views they already hold. They take from art what they already believe."
Stanley Kubrick
"Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something."
Quentin Tarantino
"The urge for destruction is also a creative urge."
Mikhail Bakunin
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