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Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it.
Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.
Why settle for the art world when you can have the whole world?
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.
I listen to his records and go to his concerts. That's the greatest compliment I can pay an artist.
The time of year when the devil comes and spews art over London.
L'amour est, comme la médecine, seulement l'art d'aider ? la nature.
Made poetry a mere mechanic art.
Music is the vapour of art.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.
Jazz is the false liquidation of art — instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.
Learn the art of Silence ; the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.
Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be.
Philokleon: Let each man exercise the art he knows.
(tr. Rogers 1909, p. 110)
One cannot create an art that speaks to me when one has nothing to say.
The artist has no concern as to what the picture means.His attitude is absolute objectivity.
If thou art wise, thou knowest thy own Ignorance ; and thou art ignorant if thou knowest not thy self.