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Art Critic Inspirational Quotes (3190)

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What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.
Honore de Balzac
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The most virtuous women have within them something that is never chaste.
Honore de Balzac
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A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.
Walter Pater
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[Photography] has become more and more subtle, more and more modern, and the result is that it is now incapable of photographing a tenement or a rubbish heap without transfiguring it. Not to mention a river dam or electric cable factory: in front of these, photography can now only say, How beautiful!
Walter Benjamin
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
Honore de Balzac
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Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.
John Ruskin
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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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For the nature of women is closely allied to art
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.
James Laver
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What is fruitful alone is true.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.
Honore de Balzac
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I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
Charles Baudelaire
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What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.
Walter Pater
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
John Ruskin
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It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.
Clive Bell
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The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer's Leica rather, it is something dynamically produced in the act of representation and reception and already subject to the grids of meaning imposed on it by culture, history, language, and so forth.
Abigail Solomon-Godeau
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As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.
Abigail Solomon-Godeau
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The love of nature is the only love that does not deceive human hopes.
Honore de Balzac
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If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
John Berger
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