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"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 4.6 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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 4.6 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow." Kurt Vonnegut 4.583333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"People can misinterpret almost anything so that it coincides with views they already hold. They take from art what they already believe." Stanley Kubrick 4.571428571428571 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece." GK Chesterton 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum." Oliver Wendell Holmes 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape." Pablo Picasso 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art." Andy Warhol 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I think the idea of art kills creativity." Douglas Adams 4.4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction." Pablo Picasso 4.384615384615385 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all." John Lennon 4.363636363636363 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." Pablo Picasso 4.294117647058823 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Everything you can imagine is real." Pablo Picasso 4.285714285714286 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art." Tom Stoppard 4.285714285714286 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The urge for destruction is also a creative urge." Mikhail Bakunin 4.2 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art." Madonna Ciccone 4.166666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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 4.142857142857143 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame." GK Chesterton 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"What is art but a way of seeing?" Saul Bellow 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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