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Art Critic Inspirational Quotes (3191)

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The present moment is a powerful goddess.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
Andre Malraux
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To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life . . . Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end . . . For art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
Walter Pater
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Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Photography, because it stops the flow of life, is always flirting with death.
John Berger
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A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
John Updike
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The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn.
Jerry Saltz
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.
Brendan Gill
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Death is not a journey into an unknown land it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.
John Ruskin
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
John Ruskin
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Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.
John Ruskin
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It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.
Charles Baudelaire
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The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
John Ruskin
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While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.
Jerry Saltz
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A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.
Honore de Balzac
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It's my duty to sell the ideas. But there's always a question when it comes to beauty.
Peter Schjeldahl
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What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.
John Updike
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Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio.
Harold Rosenberg
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A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.
Charles Baudelaire
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
John Berger
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
Denis Diderot
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