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Art Critic Inspirational Quotes (3190)

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The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
George A. Moore
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
Andre Malraux
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There are no principles there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
Honore de Balzac
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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
Andre Malraux
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Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.
Jerry Saltz
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Life swarms with innocent monsters.
Charles Baudelaire
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It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.
Honore de Balzac
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People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
John Ruskin
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All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.
John Ruskin
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Vulgar souls look hastily and superficially at the sea and accuse it of monotony other more privileged beings could spend a lifetime admiring it and discovering new and changing phenomena that delight them. So it is with love.
Honore de Balzac
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Everything, alas, is an abyss, — actions, desires, dreams, words!
Charles Baudelaire
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
John Ruskin
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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?
Bernard Berenson
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Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highestquality toyourmomentsasthey pass,and simply for those moments'sake.
Walter Pater
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death.
Walter Benjamin
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If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.
Denis Diderot
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Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
John Ruskin
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Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?
Honore de Balzac
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
Charles Baudelaire
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Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.
John Ruskin
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