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Art Critic Inspirational Quotes (3190)

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And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship or nobly, which is done in pride.
John Ruskin
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The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.
Brendan Gill
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
Andre Malraux
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A poor life is lived by any one who doesn't regularly take time out to stand and gaze, or sit and listen, or touch, or smell, or brood, without any further end in mind, simply for the satisfaction gotten from what is gazed at, listened to, touched, smelled, or brooded upon.
Clement Greenberg
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In a husband, there is only a man in a married woman, there is a man, a father, a mother and a woman.
Honore de Balzac
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The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity.
Clement Greenberg
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Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.
Charles Baudelaire
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Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]
Honore de Balzac
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Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art Modernism used art to call attention to art.
Clement Greenberg
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Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.
Jerry Saltz
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.
Honore de Balzac
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Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
Andre Malraux
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The frame announces that between the part of reality that was cut away and this part there is a difference and that this segment which the frame frames is an example of nature-as-representation, nature-as-sign.
Rosalind E. Krauss
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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
Andre Malraux
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?
Charles Baudelaire
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I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.
John Updike
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The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.
John Ruskin
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One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond external facts and gives the inmost motives. One of the most mendacious is autobiography.
Theodor Haecker
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