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Art Critic Inspirational Quotes (3190)

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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.
Walter Pater
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Architecture is crystallized music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.
John Ruskin
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We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Ofili is still a champion. It would be a huge mistake to think otherwise.
Jerry Saltz
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation.
Octave Mirbeau
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The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
Robert Hughes
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
Charles Baudelaire
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Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.
Honore de Balzac
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The fact is that some people are better than others - smarter, harder working, more learned, more productive, harder to replace.
William A. Henry III
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In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.
William A. Henry III
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No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.
William A. Henry III
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The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.
William A. Henry III
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
John Berger
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
Emile Zola
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Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at least to detach it from the background of universal delusion, is triumphing almost everywhere.
Walter Benjamin
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Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real.
Louis Aragon
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We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles that surround us.
Umberto Boccioni
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