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"The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"All art is quite useless"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
"In art the best is good enough"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer
"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed"
William Blake, Poet
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - It is a process of elimination"
Elbert Hubbard, Writer
"Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time"
Karl Marx, Philosopher
"All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul"
John Ruskin, Writer
"The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most"
John Ruskin, Writer
"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance"
John Ruskin, Writer
"He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas"
John Ruskin, Writer
"Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
"Space is the breath of art"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
"Art is the daughter of freedom"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
"Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice"
Virginia Woolf, Author
"Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition"
John Portman, Architect
"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature"
Eric Hoffer, Writer
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