Arts, Media & Entertainment: Art Quotes

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"One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... It allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear"

Marilyn French, Author

"Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model"

Marilyn French, Author

"The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity"

Andre Gide, Novelist

"Caress the detail, the divine detail"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual!"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason"

Andre Gide, Novelist

"To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better"

Andre Gide, Novelist

"Originality is really important"

Jim Carrey, Actor

"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"I want to die painting"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"The camera introduces us to unconscious optics, as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know I don't think it's fair that I'm living for something I can't even define"

Ani DiFranco, Musician

"The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

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

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"I have sworn to die painting"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"I am a pupil of Pissarro"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"Two sittings a day of my models and I'm totally exhausted"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"I paint as if I were Rothschild"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"Art is a harmony parallel with nature"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"I am the primitive of the method I have invented"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth"

James Thurber, Comedian

"I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter"

Jim Carrey, Actor

"Before I do anything, I think, well, what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile"

Jim Carrey, Actor

"Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp"

John Donne, Poet

"I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes"

Bette Midler, Actress

"The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration"

Frida Kahlo, Painter

"Painting completed my life"

Frida Kahlo, Painter

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