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Art Critic Inspirational Quotes (3190)

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Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.
Honore de Balzac
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Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!
Emile Zola
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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The fact is that she was terribly undressed and I was extremely undressed too. The fact is that I still had my hand where she didn't have anything and she had hers where the same wasn't quite true of me. The fact is that I found myself underneath her and consequently she found herself on top of me.
Denis Diderot
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Today, because photography exercises such a profound influence upon the study of art, we tend to disregard the way in which prints continue to function as information.
Edward Lucie-Smith
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To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.
Honore de Balzac
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The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.
Honore de Balzac
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I had come to believe that I was not as clever as some other kids who were my friends. And yet I knew even then that I wanted to do something of an intellectual nature, and excel at it. I also realized that if I was going to succeed at all, it would be through hard work.
Irving Sandler
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New York is of course many cities, and an exile does not return to the one he left.
John Updike
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The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.
David Antin
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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.
John Ruskin
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Live dangerously and you live right.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.
Honore de Balzac
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Scepticism is the first step toward truth.
Denis Diderot
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The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
John Berger
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
Charles Baudelaire
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Only law can give us freedom.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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