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Art Critic Inspirational Quotes (3190)

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What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.
Denis Diderot
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The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.
Deborah Solomon
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We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!
John Ruskin
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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness.
Honore de Balzac
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Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.
Denis Diderot
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For me, it was like this: pronounced antipathy to conversing about matters of practical life, the future, dates, politics. You are fixated on the intellectual sphere as a man possessed may be fixated on the sexual: under its spell, sucked into it.
Walter Benjamin
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
Honore de Balzac
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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
Charles Baudelaire
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The essence of modern dictatorship is the combination of one-dimensional, flat thinking with power and terror.
Theodor Haecker
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Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury.
John Ruskin
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White, black and yellow men - they all cry salt tears.
Claude Aveline
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Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.
Robert Hughes
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We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.
Honore de Balzac
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
Denis Diderot
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The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
Octave Mirbeau
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If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
Denis Diderot
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