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"One must act in painting as in life, directly"
Pablo Picasso, Artist
"Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
"It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it"
Linus Torvalds, Businessman
"It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him, and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting"
Lord Byron, Poet
"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed"
Kahlil Gibran, Poet
"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real"
Rabindranath Tagore, Poet
"In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects"
Rabindranath Tagore, Poet
"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience"
Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher
"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination?"
Carl Jung, Psychologist
"The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, grotesque"
John Ruskin, Writer
"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists"
John Ruskin, Writer
"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled"
John Ruskin, Writer
"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting"
John Ruskin, Writer
"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light"
John Ruskin, Writer
"An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome"
John Ruskin, Writer
"All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent"
John Ruskin, Writer
"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: Then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it"
John Ruskin, Writer
"No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder"
John Ruskin, Writer
"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect"
John Ruskin, Writer
"The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
"The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered, that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
"Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom"
Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist
"I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
"Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
"Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
"Today it is not the classroom nor the classics which are the repositories of models of eloquence, but the ad agencies"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
"Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
"That terrible mood of depression, of whether it's any good or not, is what is known as The Artist's Reward"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others"
Virginia Woolf, Author
"Really, I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art"
Virginia Woolf, Author
"Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order"
Virginia Woolf, Author
"A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there, complete in the mind, if only at the back"
Virginia Woolf, Author
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