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"A painter is a man who paints what he sells. An artist, however, is a man that sells what he paints."
Pablo Picasso
"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
"All art is but imitation of nature."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"All art is quite useless."
Oscar Wilde
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
Pablo Picasso
"All good art is about something deeper than it admits."
Roger Ebert
"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
"Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity."
T.S. Eliot
"Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul."
Bruce Lee
"Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art."
C.S. Lewis
"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."
GK Chesterton
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better."
André Gide
"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
"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."
Henry Kissinger
"Art is the lie that tells the truth."
Pablo Picasso
"Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp."
John Donne
"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
GK Chesterton
"Bad artists copy. Great artists steal."
Pablo Picasso
"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
"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
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