"Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste."

Art, Taste

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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."

Carla H. Krueger, American Author

Art, Love, Emotion, Passion, Truth

"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

Susan Sontag, American Author

Art, Experience, Criticism, Now

"Create with the heart, build with the mind."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

Art, Creativity, Truth, Power, Life

"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle."

Albrecht Dürer, German Artist

Art, Evil, Man

"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."

Albrecht Dürer, German Artist

Art, Geometry, Painting, Principles

"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Art, Food, Work, Men

"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Art, Music, Hell, Escape, Addiction

"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Art, Lying, Beauty, Truth

"Music communicates with the soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Art, Music, Communicates, Soul, Expression

"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Art, Individual, Goodness, Commonplace

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"If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it."

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"Sacred cows make very poor gladiators."

Prediction

"If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice."

Choice

"Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us."

Love

"A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die."

People

"I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'"

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"Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying."

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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."

"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

"Create with the heart, build with the mind."

"If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle."

"And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art."

"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."

"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?"

"Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."

"Music communicates with the soul."

"Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting."

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"If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it."

"Sacred cows make very poor gladiators."

"If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice."

"Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us."

"A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die."

"You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play."

"There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave."

"We love because it's the only true adventure."

"I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'"

"Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying."