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The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.’ Leonard Bernstein
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The learned understand the reason of the art, the unlearned feel the pleasure.
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The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
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The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust. (Ruth 2:12) The Bible quotes
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.’ Oscar Wilde
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The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you’re born, and doesn’t stop until you get up to speak in public.
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The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.
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The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
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The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.’ T S Eliot
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It’s the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wander, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.
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The most profound things are inexpressible.
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The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.
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The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality.
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The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
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The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. Thomas Wolfe quotes
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The object of art is to give life a shape.
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