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Art Critic Inspirational Quotes (3190)

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Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it. Advanced art today is no longer a cause -it contains no moral imperative. There is no virtue in clinging to principles and standards, no vice in selling or in selling out.
Harold Rosenberg
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There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
John Ruskin
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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
John Updike
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Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.
John Updike
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There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin
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I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.
John Updike
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The most painful thing for me is to be misunderstood.
Matthew Collings
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Let us leave the cure of public evils to those quacks, the statesmen.
Honore de Balzac
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A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.
Charles Baudelaire
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It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse, and a woman dancing.
Honore de Balzac
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Love is a game in which one always cheats.
Honore de Balzac
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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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God alone can finish.
John Ruskin
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I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage.
John Ruskin
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Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.
John Ruskin
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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
Walter Benjamin
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Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Despite having been awarded the dubious honor of arthood, all photography is still perceived as having one foot in the real world, a toe in the chilly waters of verisimilitude, no matter how often it is demonstrated that photographs can and do lie.
Lucy R. Lippard
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You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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