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"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better." André Gide 4.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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
"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
"There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit." Ansel Adams 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." Aristotle 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art." Baltasar Gracian 3.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first." Blaise Pascal 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul." Bruce Lee 4.833333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." C.S. Lewis 4.769230769230769 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art." C.S. Lewis 3 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
"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure." Dale Carnegie 3.6666666666666665 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"I think the idea of art kills creativity." Douglas Adams 4.4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves." Edward Bulwer-Lytton 4.6 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A 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 3.75 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course." George Bernard Shaw 4 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
"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame." GK Chesterton 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere." GK Chesterton 4.875 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Of all lies, art is the least untrue." Gustave Flaubert 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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