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Quotations on Art and Artists

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by Oscar Wilde
(October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900)

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

by Paul Ambroise Valéry
(October 30, 1871 - July 20, 1945)

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

by André Paul Guillaume Gide
(November 22, 1869 - February 19, 1951)

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

by Marcel Proust
(July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922)

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental vie ...

by Jean Cocteau
(July 5, 1889 - October 11, 1963)

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

by Saul Bellow
(July 10, 1915 - )

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to ...

by Salvadore Dali
(May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989)

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

by Charles Baudelaire
(April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867)

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

by Pablo Picasso
(October 25, 1881 - April 18, 1973)

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

by Bette Midler
(December 1, 1945 - )

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.


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