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Art Critic Inspirational Quotes (3190)

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Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.
John Ruskin
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My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
Charles Baudelaire
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Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.
John Ruskin
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.
Marcel Carne
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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.
Charles Baudelaire
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To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
Andre Malraux
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Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.
David Antin
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Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.
Clement Greenberg
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Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world.
Peter Schjeldahl
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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
John Updike
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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.
Honore de Balzac
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Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.
Octave Mirbeau
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And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile.
Louis Aragon
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In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor.
John Ruskin
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As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!
Louis Aragon
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