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Art Critic Inspirational Quotes (3190)

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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
Bernard Berenson
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All understanding begins in wonder!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models.
John Updike
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If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.
Emile Zola
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.
David Antin
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I know it's dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and anonymous people can chime in, too.
Jerry Saltz
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Few men are raised in our estimation by being too closely examined.
Honore de Balzac
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The suffering may be moral or physical and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Matisse renovates rather than innovates.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.
Walter Benjamin
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All men are mortal, and therefore all men are losers our profoundest loyalty goes out to the failed.
John Updike
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Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at every hour begins the mysteries of her untiring labors afresh.
Honore de Balzac
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When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.
Charles Baudelaire
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The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.
John Ruskin
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Willing is not enough, we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.
Honore de Balzac
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The present moment is a powerful goddess.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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