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"Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside."

"Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside."

Rosanna Arquette, American Actress

Art, People, Artists, Criticism

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"Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV."

"Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV."

Ani DiFranco, American Musician

15

"I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences."

"I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences."

Jim Morrison, American Musician

Art, People, Trying

15

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."

Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician

Art, Experience, Enjoyment

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"When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art."

"When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art."

Marc Chagall, French Artist

Art, God, Man, Painting

15

"Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you."

"Seek art from every time and place, in any form, to connect with those who really move you."

Martha Beck, American Author

15

"Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people."

"Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people."

Kathryn Bigelow, American Director

Art, People, Film, Numbers

15

"Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art."

"Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art."

Clara Schumann, German Musician

15

"In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution."

"In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution."

Bela Bartok, Hungarian Composer

Art, Evolution, Revolution

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"The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible."

"The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible."

Jacques Chirac, French Statesman

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"If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air."

"If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air."

Doris Lessing, English Writer

Art, Fish, Water

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"Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh."

"Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh."

Allen Ginsberg, American Poet

Art, Community, Effort, Living

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"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven."

"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven."

Walter Savage Landor, English Poet

Art, Music, God, Earth

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"Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists."

"Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists."

Lara St. John, Canadian Musician

Art, Music, Life, Women

15

"What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive."

"What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive."

Arnold Palmer, American Athlete

Art, Poetry, People, May

15

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

Don Marquis, American Poet

Art, Procrastination, Yesterday

15

"People who think about art as an investment are pathetic."

"People who think about art as an investment are pathetic."

Walter Annenberg, American Businessman

Art, People, Investment

15

"You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years."

"You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years."

Fay Godwin, British Photographer

15

"Art is I; science is we."

"Art is I; science is we."

Claude Bernard, French Psychologist

15

"I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade."

"I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade."

Anish Kapoor, Indian Artist

15

"Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim."

"Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim."

Donald Judd, American Artist

Art, America, Culture, Now, Painting

15

"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture."

"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture."

Ezra Pound, American Poet

Art, Poetry, Sculpture

15

"I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect."

"I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect."

Vaclav Havel, Czechoslovakian Leader

15

"I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career."

"I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career."

David Naughton, American Actor

Art, Music, Career, London

15

"Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama."

"Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama."

Eric Johnston, American Businessman

Art, Movies, Drama, First

15

"Art must not serve might."

"Art must not serve might."

Karel Capek, Czechoslovakian Writer

15

"All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form."

"All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form."

Estelle Parsons, American Actress

Art, Generations, Theater

15

"It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least."

"It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least."

Robert Browning Hamilton, American Poet

Art, Truth, Glory

15

"I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art."

"I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art."

Willem de Kooning, American Artist

15

"I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it."

"I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it."

Amanda Seyfried, American Actress

Art, Ballet, Energy, School

15

"I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid."

"I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid."

Jonathan Lethem, American Writer

15

"Love-making is an art which must be studied."

"Love-making is an art which must be studied."

Ivor Novello, Welsh Musician

15

"So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right."

"So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right."

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss Author

Art, Fear, Right

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"In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?"

"In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?"

Sarah Jessica Parker, American Actress

Art, Compromise

15

"Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification."

"Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification."

Karl Popper, Austrian Philosopher

Art, Science, May

15

"Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper."

"Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper."

Gunter Grass, German Author

Art, Expression, Fight, Passion

15

"There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other."

"There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other."

Paul Cezanne, French Artist

15

"It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there."

"It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there."

Anthony Trollope, English Author

Art, May, Writer

15

"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Art, Communication, Expression, Understanding

15

"A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world."

"A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world."

Hans Hofmann, German Artist

Art, Work, Emotions

15

"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art."

"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

15

"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."

"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

15

"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?""

"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?""

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

Art, Heart, Devil, First

15

"Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization."

"Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization."

Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish Poet

15

"Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form."

"Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form."

Shelley Berman, American Comedian

15

"An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original."

"An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

Art, Artist, Order

15

"At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political."

"At the same time, of course, Marxism arose - Rosa Luxembourg, Leninism, anarchism - and art became political."

Douglas Sirk, German Director

Art, Time, Marxism

15

"The principle of art is to pause, not bypass."

"The principle of art is to pause, not bypass."

Jerzy Kosinski, Polish Novelist

15

"It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include."

"It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include."

John Sexton, American Educator

Art, Right, Trying

15

"My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art."

"My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art."

Jimi Hendrix, American Musician

Art, Life, Music, Goal

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